How did your career help you write your book?
I was a high school guidance counselor for twenty seven years, and a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for ten years. Over the years I learned things about families and young people.
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In my capacity as a high school counselor students would often come to my office with problems looking for advice. The problems would be new to the students; however, for me I had seen the problem over and over again with other students. From these encounters I learned steps that would bring success, and steps that would lead to failure for the student. For example one day a young lady came to my office in tears over her boy friend. She was upset by the way he was treating her. I was acquainted with her boyfriend, …

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Scott Hail - Author, Raconteur
RACE RIDER is my second book to be published.  The other was a local publisher in Utah. The book, coming out for Christmas, I hope, is the story of what happens to Jack Sh0rt who is about 4 foot 8 at the end of his sophomore year.  He feels invisible.  During the summer, the best job he can ge

Read aloud
If I had only one rule to improve your writing it is this. “Read aloud what you written”. What doesn’t sound right to you will not read well to the eye Read out loud completed paragraphs to an audience and try to put in some real life performance. If you do not do it with conviction, you kn

Dress-Up Dog, Bart
I just thought that I would add that even though my 3 girls get dressed up in costumes, and enter all the local parades, they don't have the same enthusiasm that Bart had.   Which is why I said, he was one in a million!

Dress-Up Dog, Bart
I would just like to add that my 3 rescues, all girls, also dress up in costumes and go in all of the parades!    The memory of Bart lives on!!

One-eye
There were two pirates drinking on a ship out to sea. One had a parrot on his shoulder. The bird kept taunting the other pirate saying, “Screw you one-eye,” and then it would jester with its wing. The pirate got angry, but this went on for hours, until both pirates were very drunk. At that

Great News
Well everyone I just signed the publishing contract on my book Panther Dreams. I hope once it hits the internet and the book stores you pick one up and enjoy!! Shelley Harshbarger

READY OR NOT
  My daughter [Anita] has so gently reminded me, on her blog site that I have been ‘under construction’ for a very long time. Actually,74 years. I had thought the Lord had given up on me, but apparently not. He has given me a hunger to shake people out of their apathetic tendencies. I am certai

Grassroots Organizing: 1930s Style
The mainstream media makes out like the economic collapse is just something that happened to us. Some greedy banksters gambled with trillions of dollars of our money and in the process, also committed embezzlement, fraud and theft. Now the money is gone, and we just have to live with it. Millions of

Rye Bread
Two older men, one 80 and one 87, were sitting on their usual park bench one morning. The 87-year old had just finished his morning jog and wasn’t even short of breath. The 80-year old was amazed at his friend’s stamina and asked what he did to have so much energy. The 87-year old said, “Well

SMALL CONTRIBUTIONS:On Recognizing The Beauty Inside
Until You showed me, I couldn’t believe that there was beauty inside me. I don’t think that I’m alone there. Surely, no one can find beauty inside of themselves until You decide to show us. Thinking on that, it’s hard to see why arrogance is; but then, that’s just loud lies and large fears

Walk By Faith
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Passion
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Progress being made
 My first book Dreams will be at the Frankfurt Book Fair this year in October

What Religion Is Your Bra?
A man walks into the ladies’ department of a local clothing store. He shyly walks up to the woman behind the counter and said, “I would like to buy a bra for my wife.” “What type of bra?” asked the clerk. “Type,” the man inquired. “There is more than one type?” “Look ar

Dress-Up Dog, Bart
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A NEW RELEASE
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Advise is a form of nostalgia
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I wish I was
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