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Pat Ballard

Pat Ballard

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Pat Ballard is the Queen of Rubenesque Romances and author of 10 Steps to Loving Your Body (No Matter What Size You Are).

A Dime Is a Sign: Poems of Love and Loss (Feelings Into Words)

A Dime Is a Sign: Poems of Love and Loss (Feelings Into Words)

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<p>A psychic medium once said that if you find a random dime, it is a sign that someone that you have loved and lost is thinking of you.</p><p><strong>A Dime is a Sign Through Time</strong></p><p><em>If you find a dime, </em></p><p><em>You will know that I'm</em></p><p><em>Sending thoughts of love</em></p><p><em>Through the veil of time.</em></p><p> </p><p><em>Ten cents with a silver shine, </em></p><p><em>A sense sent you to help remind</em></p><p><em>That someone who left you behind</em></p><p><em>Is always living in your mind.</em></p><p> </p><p><em>Sending love and vibes, </em></p><p><em>Felt as psychic sighs ...</em></p><p><em>The ones that you miss, </em></p><p><em>Send you a kiss ...</em></p><p> </p><p>Sherrill S. Cannon's second book of poetry contains messages written through the years in poetic form that put feelings into words. As a teacher, many of her poems helped counsel troubled teens and friends.</p><p>There are three sections in the book: Heads, Spinning, and Tails ... (Love &amp; Loss: Coin Toss?). The variety of lyrical poetry forms include free verse, blank verse, haiku, and sonnets, while some are just playing with words!</p><p>Hopefully, this is also a book of healing.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Sherrill S. Cannon, a former teacher and grandmother of ten, is the author of nine acclaimed rhymed children's books, plus a recent award-winning book of poetry <em>(A Penny for Your Thoughts), </em>which together have received 63 national and international book awards since 2011. She also wrote seven published plays for elementary school children that have been performed in over 25 countries. Most of her children's books emphasize consideration for others. Married for 58 years, she and her spouse are now retired, live in Pennsylvania, and travel in their RV from coast to coast, spending time with their children and grandchildren, and sharing her books along the way!</p><p> </p>

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<p><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><strong>Body Wisdom to Replace Body Warfare</strong></span></p> <p align="right"><font size="2" face="Verdana">&quot;If you're a woman, odds are you're not happy with your body. You probably can't remember when you weren't at war with your belly or your thighs. (Men are beginning to catch up with their own versions of body discontent.) Western culture provides you with a steady stream of images and advice about an often unattainable &quot;right&quot; way to look, feeding your feelings that you just aren't acceptable as you are.<br /><br /> &quot;Enter Pat Ballard with <em>10 Steps to Loving Your Body (No Matter What Size You Are)</em> to supply a badly-needed alternative voice! <strong>Ballard's easy-to-read, easy-to-use volume  is like having your own personal coach and cheerleader for ending the warfare and making peace with the body you have.</strong> She's out in front to show you the way, behind you to nudge you forward, and beside you offering support and encouragement for every step (all 10!) of your journey. She accomplishes this with guidelines (&quot; . . . our bodies know what they want to look like&quot;), worksheets to practice new ways of thinking and behaving (&quot;. . .look for 10 good things about [your] body and try to develop them&quot;), and <strong>the greatest collection of inspirational quotes for body-love and general self-respect you're likely to find anywhere</strong> (for example, from Gloria Steinem, &quot;Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on it's own terms.&quot; Or, from an unknown author, &quot;'It's not who you are that holds you back; it's who you think you're not.&quot;)<br /><em><br /><strong>&quot;10 Steps </strong></em><strong>is your body's best friend in pocket form.</strong> I'm delighted to have it on hand to recommend―personally and professionally―to anyone struggling with body image and the inkling that it's better to embrace than fight the one-and-only body you have.&quot;</font></p> <font size="2" face="Verdana"><strong>Susan Schulherr<br /></strong>author of  <em><strong>Eating Disorders for Dummies</strong></em></font>