![]() ![]() One year after he was let go by Tampa Bay, the team won Super Bowl XXXVII over the Oakland Raiders with Jon Gruden as head coach. He was, most would say, unfairly fired by the Buccaneers as they seemed to feel he was not going to get them past the playoffs and to the Super Bowl. His style, by all accounts, is a quiet, understated approach that has certainly worked well for him.ĭungy rebuilt the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from a lousy team to a championship-caliber team, but could never quite get the wins in the playoffs to reach the Super Bowl. ![]() He is also not the stereotypical coach who screams, yells, and cusses at his players when they make mistakes or in an attempt to fire them up or get the best out them. He is no Bill Parcells, who often demeans his players, sometimes in public, to motivate them. His approach to coaching football is certainly unique. This memoir is about how Coach Dungy applies his Christian faith to not only his coaching in professional football, but to his life off the field as well. He finally got over the hump by winning Super Bowl XLI over the Chicago Bears behind Peyton Manning and the feisty play of strong safety Bob Sanders. As a head coach, he lead the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to the brink of a championship before being let go. Tony Dungy has been in the National Football League as a coach for many years. ![]() Tony Dungy is a rather unique and inspiring person. Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life by Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Steve Benson wrote a very accurate description of Deborah. "Deborah Laake was my aunt and it's interesting reading about her here. ![]() ("’Secret Ceramonies" by Deborah Laake,’” posted by “tombs1,” on “Recovery from Mormonism” board, 7 January 2011)Ī family member of Deborah, RfM poster “Jewel in the Desert,” responded: “I know it is an older book, but if anyone can find it I encourage you to read it.” "Another irony is that when I read part of it I said, ‘he is saying things that shouldn't be talked about.’ My father than encouraged me to ‘run not walk away from any organization that tries to tell people what to read and what not to.’ I than had almost the exact same thing happen to me just months latter in the MTC that happend to Ms. "Has anyone ever read that book or met Deborah Laake? I also remember being told that Mormon women threw a fit about her talking about the Temple when the book was released in 1993. "Ironically, the little bit that I read prepared me for the Temple far better than any Church source could have. In it she described the Temple ceremony in detail and talked about how Mormon culture forced her into a loveless marriage and how divorce and being different ostracized her and took a huge toll on her mental health. ![]() “When I was about eighteen and geting ready to go on a mission, my Never MO dad brought home a book called ‘Secret Ceramonies’ by Deborah Laake. In a previous thread, RfM poster "tombs1" wrote: ![]() ![]() Set in modern-day New York City, the first season of this serialized drama interweaves The Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood and Hansel and Gretel into an epic and subversive tale of love, loss, greed, revenge, and murder." ![]() Tell Me a Story takes "the world's most beloved fairy tales and reimagines them as a dark and twisted psychological thriller. Subsequently, the television broadcast rights to the series were picked up by The CW, where it premiered in July 2020 and aired through December 2020. ![]() In May 2020, the series was canceled after two seasons. A second season was announced shortly before the first season ended, which premiered on December 5, 2019, and concluded on February 6, 2020, after another set of 10 episodes. The first season premiered on October 31, 2018, and concluded on January 3, 2019, after 10 episodes. Each season features a mostly different cast ensemble, with Danielle Campbell and Paul Wesley appearing in both seasons of the series. ![]() ![]() Based on the Spanish television series Cuéntame un cuento, it depicts iconic fairy tales reimagined as modern-day thrillers. Tell Me a Story is an American psychological thriller television anthology series created by Kevin Williamson for CBS All Access. ![]() ![]() ![]() These charming, funny stories about people, who will go to great lengths to save old roses, are well told and most gardeners (hopefully) will get the determination to not let these roses fade into extinction. People can get very passionate about roses and that is the subject of this delightful book. White roses are for love dead or forsaken, but the red roses, ah the red roses are for love triumphant. Pink roses are for love hopeful and expectant. The world has acclaimed it for centuries. ![]() A favorite old proverb about roses: “The rose is a flower of love. I thought she was crazy at the time but now I get it. My great auntie Grace dug it up and took it with her to plant in her garden. My Grandmother called it a “cabbage” rose and she had been tending this rose for almost fifty years before she died. ![]() It was a “Centifolia” rose with a long history. ![]() It was my grandmother's garden and it was the most beautiful pink. I fell in love with a old garden rose when I was eight years old and in a fragrant rose garden. ‘I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,īut no such roses see I in her cheeks…’ Shakespeare Sonnet -130 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Until the Civil War, Baptist explains, the most important American economic innovations were ways to make slavery ever more profitable. ![]() In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton empire, and the United States grew into a modern, industrial, and capitalist economy. As historian Edward Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. ![]() But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. You can read this before The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.Īmericans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution-the nation’s original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America’s later success. Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism written by Edward E. Brief Summary of Book: The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. ![]() ![]() But what right do I have? I requested it and was just positive I would get denied. I shouldn’t have read it and, in the end, it took some of the magic away from book one of the series. This hurts me to say, worse than any of you can imagine but….this book was so unnecessary. Nothing I say below has changed my opinion of her as an author….I just wanted so much more because I know how awesome she can be.**ĭid she realize I screamed my heart out in my lyrics? Did she understand that my life left me feeling vacant inside? That I was so fucking lonely I almost couldn’t stand myself? << Love this line. Stephens is an amazing author and she is one of my favorites. ![]() ![]() **I’d like to put a disclaimer before I even start this review: S.C. Just when Kellan thought his emotional defenses were rock solid, Kiera's indecisive heart wreaks havoc on his soul, changing him forever. But there's one problem - she's his best friend's girl. Makes him feel for the first time that he'sworth more. Now his life is comfortably filled with passionate music, loyal band mates, and fast women.until he meets her. Growing up in a house that was far from a home, he learned a hard lesson: You're worthless. Stephens!Įvery story has two sides, and in this new book, the epic love story between Kiera and Kellan is shown through his eyes.Īll Kellan Kyle needs is his guitar, and some clean sheets of paper. ![]() A new novel in the Thoughtless series from #1 New York Timesbestselling author S. ![]() ![]() ![]() The relics of this alien civilisation were first found on Venus, but Gateway was the real find: offering a fleet of working alien ships. These ships are the creation of the Heechee a long-dead (or disappeared?) alien species, which despite decades of study remains an enigma. Discovered quite by chance, Gateway is an alien space station – a hollowed-out asteroid – which when found housed hundreds of dormant starships. Robinette (or Rob, Robbie, or even Bob) made his money on Gateway. Robinette Broadhead was once a prospector, and tells the story of how he made his fortune – allowing him such comforts as a home beneath the Bubble of Manhattan – to a machine-psych known as Sigfrid von Shrink. As with almost all of the best SF stories, the premise of GATEWAY is very simple, and many of the story elements have been re-used over the last few decades to the extent that they’ve become worn tropes. ![]() Pohl’s GATEWAY is deserves its place as a classic SF. ![]() I picked it up last week in Forbidden Planet, and started reading it almost right away.Ī couple days later, and the book is done. Sure, I’d read about it, and it’s one of those books that is often brought up as an example of “Golden Age” SF (which it really isn’t: the book was published much later than most of the Golden Age classics), but I just never got around to it. I’m ashamed to say that I hadn’t read Pohl’s GATEWAY until very recently. ![]() ![]() ![]() Or you can continue to read the summaries as I post them here Be Whole. Talk about a best-seller! You can order a paperback from right now for R134. Think and Grow Rich was published in 1937 (nearly 80 years ago), but the book still sells for over R100. ![]() Some of Hill’s books are: The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons, Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude, The Master-Key to Riches, and You Can Work Your Own Miracles, to name a few. He’d researched hundreds of successful people over decades, to create these brilliant manuals for personal development. One of the world’s earliest self-help gurus. I’ve heard people talk about how helpful the guidelines have been to them, so I’m eager to test Napoleon Hill’s theories. That way the words get entrenched in my mind, and I am able to simplify my understanding of it. ![]() Lately, I’ve been jumping books, where I’d be reading a book and then become so distracted that I don’t finish it so my new plan is to write about. I’ve begun reading a book called Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sure, the eponymous ingredient is unquestionably part of the scenery, but the seams between it and its neighbours are difficult to detect. Here, the idea isn’t to showcase a specific material but to create an aura, a texture, an endless vista of scent. “Perfumery must look to the future,” we tend to say, “there’s no point dwelling on the past, we can’t keep expecting old brands to produce the sort of thing they made decades ago.” But then along comes a retro beauty like this one, and we’re forced to scuttle into a corner like toddlers, waiting to be served a portion of our own high-and-mighty words.Ĭompletely ignoring the current trend for translucency and hyper-legibility, Ylang Ylang is as 1970s in its approach to floral bouquets as every glitter-ball and platform shoe-cliche you can think of. A re-working of the brand’s own Fetiche from 1978, it’s the sort of composition that reduces cynical critics to gibbering wrecks and renders us speechless. Nevertheless, I must bring it to your attention. So for all I know, Coudray‘s glorious Ylang Ylang is now conspicuous by its absence in perfumeries and is doing the rounds of the auction sites and the scent-swap communities. Usually, by the time I get around to writing about a limited edition release, it’s as hard to find as a shred of maturity in a Quentin Tarantino movie. ![]() ![]() ![]() Three Men in a Boat it is not, Artt being ‘zealous for all hardships’. In this beautiful story of adventure and survival from the New York Times bestselling author of Room, three men vow to leave the world behind them as they set out in a small boat for an island. ![]() He picks two monks – one old, Cormac, a storyteller, and one young, Trian, a musician – and off they sail. Set in the 7th century, a holy man called Artt has a dream vision directing him to ‘withdraw from the world, set out on a pilgrimage with two companions’, find an island and found a monastic retreat. This must surely be her most Catholic novel. I thought this when reading her 2020 novel The Pull of the Stars, set in the 1918 flu epidemic, and Haven is no exception. Also, it has to be said that she’s frightfully good at suffering and endurance. The Irish-Canadian novelist Emma Donoghue doesn’t entirely qualify as a Catholic writer, even though she’s on record as saying she’s currently obsessed with Catholic theology, specifically Purgatory, but there’s a thread of Catholicism (particularly the Irish variety) in many of her books. I used to envy Catholic novelists – Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, François Mauriac – as having that extra point of view, namely eternity. ![]() |