Bøger af D Condry-Paulk

A delightful book with short life lessons for little ones. In The Owl, Brunno, the dog, must learn to have friends, one must be a friend-even with a cat. In the Turtle book, Eli learns what being responsible for others means when she leaves her pet turtle without care for a weekend at Grandma's house.

There comes a time in our youth when we question the wisdom of our parents and those around us. There comes a time when our eyes are opened to see the injustices in the world. After the Gulls Came is one such tale. When a mysterious stranger seeks work on his father's farm, Jesse finds himself pulled to this stranger and less dependent upon his father. He begins to question the future and his place in it. He begins to form his own opinions about how people should be treated and how he can make a difference. He learns what is important and life goes on...even when life brings pain.

Every one of these stories is a memoir, even thefairy-tale: "The Legend of Jeremy and Princess Lisa." A hummingbird did indeed try to sip nectar from the lips of Lisa in a circumstance similar to that in the story. What isn't fact, of course, is everything else in the story. In other words, a truth inspired the story. All of the stories range in truth from absolute truth with the names and places changed to protect identities, personal accounts of my own to the TINY truth of the Princess Lisa story. Some are "as-told-to-me stories though first person is used to create greater interest. A few are embellished personal experience, some embellished and enhanced more than others. The reader can decide, guess, or wonder. Isn't that part of the pleasure of reading both absolute fiction (Is there such a thing?) and absolute memoirs created from only one frame of reference-the authors!

The scarab is a story of rebirth and renewal...for a people, a family, and a young man who is searching for his place in life. Arns Levi labeled himself a misfit both at home and away from it. Born a Cheyenne and then orphaned, Arns was raised by his Cheyenne grandparents. His outlook on life gradually shifts from being one of bitterness and regret to one being filled with promise and opportunity. Arns struggle in understanding racial tensions leaves him in a constant tug-o-war as he strives to gain perspective on what his purpose is in life. Seeking answers, he comes to understand how faith, familial love, and staying true to his heritage all play a part in who he is called to be.

When an ordinary little girl becomes a princess and when the smallest of all hummingbirds becomes the Magnificent, a fairy tale is in the making. Join author Dorothea Condry-Paulk as she delights young readers' imaginations while teaching valuable character lessons in The Legend of Princess Lisa and Jeremy Hummingbird. Dorothea Condry-Paulk received a Master's degree in creative writing from the University of Central Oklahoma in 1974. Published in the play, the short story, feature articles and poetry, Paulk has pursued writing fiction, wheat farming and farmland management since retiring from teaching and nursing careers in 2004.

The Uranium Factor tells of the human struggles between the desire for peace and the personal crises of war. Steven and Jennifer Lambert, the hero and heroine, are both activists for national and for world peace. However, they are at war with one another until finding common ground when they are forced to fight for their personal survival.

"Spiritually Spooked" demonstrates, for the reader, that relationships either drive an individual's spiritual growth toward their destiny or impede it. If the reader hasn't discovered their destiny; their reason for being, this book may generate the discovery. For whether one is reading poetry, the prose of the Biblical-character monologues, relationships influence the individual's choice that is fed by spiritual faith's guidance or is fed by self-trust that hasn't sought God-knowledge from the Bible. This writer develops the perceived reality that the life lived IS identity- not one's name or profession. Destiny, in other words, and identity become synonymous. In the prose selection "Self-made vs Authentic", the lines: "The self-made person...does all the right things...slips up; turns on you with spite or worse, then slides again into the portrait of nice, hiding that corrupt destruction of self behind the image of the self-created "I" like Dorian Gray." Or from the monologue, "Joshua" where the patriarch is speaking of Israel's bondage: "God told us that He was a jealous God, that as long as we honored Him with obedience (which only leads to good things), He would be with us." The people you meet in "Spiritually Spooked", know who they are. If asked, "Who are you?" they wouldn't give only their name. They would reveal their essence. Perhaps David would say, even at an early age: "I'm David, God's chosen King for His people." David's identity is quite full as his monologue reveals.

How long does it take to realize a dream? Wheat is an epic five generational story that begins with one man's dream of building an empire of wheat and cattle. 17 year old Upton Rush leaves the blizzard plagued Ohio Valley for the newly formed Oklahoma Territory. The harsh elements, combined with lawless men, curtail his dream. Having passed the dream to his son, Harlin, and his grandson, Gavin, the dream lives on when Gavin falls in love with a girl named Teal whose passion for the land and its wheat grows an empire.

When an ordinary little girl becomes a princess and when the smallest of all hummingbirds becomes the Magnificent, a fairy tale is in the making. Join author Dorothea Condry-Paulk as she delights young readers' imaginations while teaching valuable character lessons in The Legend of Princess Lisa and Jeremy Hummingbird. Dorothea Condry-Paulk received a Master's degree in creative writing from the University of Central Oklahoma in 1974. Published in the play, the short story, feature articles and poetry, Paulk has pursued writing fiction, wheat farming and farmland management since retiring from teaching and nursing careers in 2004.