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Since the late 1970s, James Pauley, Jr. has been jet-setting around the world as a flight attendant. During his time on this planet and in the skies, he's pretty much seen and heard it all. In Bumpy Rides and Soft Landings, Pauley chronicles his life-both in the air and on the ground-one meaningful adventure after another. As someone whose innate filter doesn't always work, Pauley says it exactly as he sees it. Written in his uniquely humorous, poignant, sarcastic, self-deprecating, honest, and mildly outrageous style, he recounts stories of growing up different, while learning important lessons from even the most unlikely of sources: a chili dog, a nasty queen, a cursing coworker, a Porta-Potty, a stranger's judgment, a sore butt, a new piano, a tiny scar, a grieving widow, and a hateful bully. With the millions of miles he's logged in over the years, along with the thousands of diverse and colorful characters he's met and observed along the way, he knows one thing for certain: On this journey called Life, with no GPS or autopilot to help us navigate, no one truly knows what their final destination will be. And, because the ride will undoubtedly be turbulent at times, it's best to just fasten your seat belts, learn from the experience, and always hope for a soft landing.
Most of our time is spent with the outer life -- our jobs, our friends and families, our hobbies, or our health. We spend much less time with the inner life, that place of feelings and thoughts, anger and love, hopes and dreams. When we do spend time with the inner life, it can often be overwhelming and disruptive, taking over our lives with feelings of hopelessness and fear or with endless ruminations about our past and worries about our future. In the practices of this book, we learn how to make friends with our inner life, to reconnect with ourselves, others, our world, and with God. We learn to have productive conversations with three specific inner voices: our separated self who lives in a world of scarcity and fear, our connected self who lives in an expansive world of abundance and compassion, and the watcher who stands apart from all the conflicting conversations going on in the inner life. The watcher decides how then shall we live. With a little time and some practice, we can bring our inner turmoil to a peaceful resolution and live a life that is safe, joyful, focused, and filled with compassion.
Enjoy the antics of two very "freed-up sentient beings" who have taken hilarity to a precarious level as they wing their way into your heart. (Jim is a flight attendant and Charlene is. . . well, she's just flighty). Share their joy, laughter, and even a few tears as they warm hearts and open minds in this straightforward account of true friendship. With honest conversations, humor, probing, accepting, sharing, and understanding, they quite possibly could knock down even more barriers involving discrimination, ignorance, bigotry, and inequality. James Pauley, Jr. was a flight attendant from 1978 to 2023, a career he loved. It gave him the opportunity to see the world, meet thousands of interesting people, witness things not for the faint of heart, and get lots of material for future writing endeavors. He lives in Indiana with Rich, his spouse of forty-two years. He is the author of Bumpy Rides and Soft Landings. Charlene Potterbaum is the mother of six, who is still scratching her head, wondering how she and her husband, Gene, raised them. She has loved writing from an early age. Through it, she could create characters or be whoever she wanted to be. Now in her ninth decade, she lives in Indiana and is the author of Joy of Six and the best-selling Thanks Lord, I Needed That.
Examines a series of economic and social policy areas (monetary policy, budgets, taxation, privatization and deregulation, consumer policy, local government, health, housing and urban policy, education, the elderly) and weighs the impact of New Right ideas on those areas in the UK and US. The chapters present New Right ideas, describe governmental objectives and policies and how they reflect New Right concerns, and examine the extent to which the policies implemented match New Right ambitions. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Riveting accounts from the pilots who flew such planes as the F-15, B-52, C-130, and many more. Dozens of in-the-cockpit photos.
Enjoy the antics of two very "freed-up sentient beings" who have taken hilarity to a precarious level as they "wing" their way into your heart. (Jim is a flight attendant and she...well, she's just... "flighty"). Share their joy, laughter and even a few tears as they warm hearts in this straightforward account of true friendship; a mixture of pathos, openness, and conversations that could be dangerous to bigotry and ignorance; best, if read with an open heart, a searching mind and bright marker.
Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains. Winner of the LA Times Book Prize. For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon - a chance to party during spring break and play around with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy teenage girl who knows something about what it’s like to live without the feed-and about resisting its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires. Following in the footsteps of George Orwell, Anthony Burgess, and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., M. T. Anderson has created a brave new world - and a hilarious new lingo - sure to appeal to anyone who appreciates smart satire, futuristic fiction laced with humor, or any story featuring skin lesions as a fashion statement.