A Poet’S Guide to Outdoor Exercise

A Poet’S Guide to Outdoor Exercise
Author: John Famulary
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1475968981

In A Poets Guide to Outdoor Exercise, author John Famulary shares some remarkable outdoor exercise adventures set in such exotic locales as Williamsburg, Brooklyn; Central Park; the Catskill Mountains and a football field in New Jersey. John discusses the advantages of outdoor exercise and, in clues and descriptions, suggests steps you can take to create your own outdoor exercise routine. For the author, outdoor exercise means being in nature wherever he finds it plus the joy of movement, as they used to say. Theres some philosophy here, too. A little poetry, as well, and some excerpts from an unconventional life, the author's own. In fresh and inventive prose, Famulary has penned a thought-provoking memoir thats also a practical guide to physical fitness and a metaphysical tool. Sometimes humorous, occasionally profound, A Poets Guide to Outdoor Exercise invites readers to explore pathways and processes- both physical and metaphysical- that can help us energize and re-vitalize almost every time.

Turn Around Time

Turn Around Time
Author: David Guterson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781680512656

Most outdoor enthusiasts understand the phrase "turn around time" as that point in an adventure when one must cease heading out in order to have enough time to safely return to camp or home. In that vein, an award-winning novelist explores midlife through a lyrical journey along a trail.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vision Boards

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vision Boards
Author: Marcia Layton Turner
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2009-12-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1101152028

Train the brain with visions of success for this book.... A Vision Board is a board for pasted images representing goals the creator wants to accomplish, made so that he or she might attain them. They are garnished with everything from photographs to 3-D objects. This book shows the steps to: imagining the desired results (from the perfect mate to improved health); breaking through obstacles to transformation; visualizing an improved future; and using the Vision Board to 'retrain the brain'. ?Step-by-step lessons on crafting the Vision Board are geared for any reader, regardless of creativity or artistic skill ?Includes a full-color insert with examples and instruction

Poemcrazy

Poemcrazy
Author: Susan G. Wooldridge
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2009-09-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0307559122

Following the success of several recent inspirational and practical books for would-be writers, Poemcrazy is a perfect guide for everyone who ever wanted to write a poem but was afraid to try. Writing workshop leader Susan Wooldridge shows how to think, use one's senses, and practice exercises that will make poems more likely to happen.

Home Learning Year by Year, Revised and Updated

Home Learning Year by Year, Revised and Updated
Author: Rebecca Rupp
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2020-01-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0525576975

A comprehensive guide to designing homeschool curriculum, from one of the country’s foremost homeschooling experts—now revised and updated! Homeschooling can be a tremendous gift to your children—a personalized educational experience tailored to each kid’s interests, abilities, and learning styles. But what to teach, and when, and how? Especially for first-time homeschoolers, the prospect of tackling an annual curriculum can be daunting. In Home Learning Year by Year, Rebecca Rupp presents comprehensive plans from preschool through high school, covering integral subjects for each grade, with lists of topics commonly presented at each level, recommended resource and reading lists, and suggestions for creative alternative options and approaches. Included, along with all the educational basics, are techniques and resources for teaching everything from philosophy to engineering, as well as suggestions for dealing with such sensitive topics as sex education. Now revised throughout with all-new updates featuring the most effective and up-to-date methods and reading guides to homeschool your child at all ages, Home Learning Year by Year continues to be the definitive book for the homeschooling parent.

Library Partnerships with Writers and Poets

Library Partnerships with Writers and Poets
Author: Carol Smallwood
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2017-02-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1476629226

Libraries and writers have always had a close working relationship. Rapid advances in technology have not changed the nontechnical basis of that cooperation: author talks, book signings and readings are as popular as ever, as are workshops and festivals. This collection of 29 new essays from nearly 50 contributors from across the United States presents a variety of projects, programs and services to help librarians establish relationships with the literary world, promote literature to the public and foster creativity in their communities.

The Literary News

The Literary News
Author: Frederick Leypoldt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1901
Genre: American literature
ISBN:

Outside the Box

Outside the Box
Author: Karma Wilson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2014-03-11
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1481405349

This laugh-out-loud poetry collaboration from a New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestselling author and a Caldecott Honor illustrator is anything but ordinary. Dive in to Karma Wilson’s latest collection of more than 100 poems—some humorous, some poignant, and all of them Outside the Box. Illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Diane Goode, Outside the Box has something for everyone. Appealing to kids and parents alike, poems such as “Sick Day,” “My Pet Robot,” “Balloonaphobia,” and “Aliens Under My Bed” are sure to delight and entertain.