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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Frank Norris, Wrestler
I was in San Francisco the other day, drivng my 92 year old father around. We were in the Polk Street area when we ran into a street called Frank Norris. A small street no wider than an alley. I know who Frank Norris was and I know my father knew who Frank Norris was. At least at one time I know he knew. We had a distant acquantance who lived and owned Frank Norris' old  family estate south of

The World Economic Forum Weighs In
[caption id="attachment_4638" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="Leaders from 2008 World Economic Forum"][/caption] This is the second of two posts on Global Risks 2012, a discussion document the global elite is considering this week at the World Economic Forum meets in Davos Switzerland. How Global Risks 2012 Came to Be Written The Wo

Sherrill S. Cannon on Jacket Flap
[caption id="attachment_651" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Gimme-Jimmy "][/caption] I discovered a new website for children's books: Jacket Flap.  I am looking forward to being able to add "Gimme-Jimmy" before long.  Please check out my page for additional information: Sherrill S. Cannon at Jacket Flap

Hooker Flights
I was at the airport last Thursday to pick someone up and I got out instead of meeting him curbside. It was late Thursday afternoon and the flight was Southwest.  I saw a lot of single ladies taking a flight to Las Vegas and was curious. I approached a uniformed cop and asked him, Is that what I think it is? He nodded. -Yup, he said. It's Thursday night and a lot of them are leaving town

An Effort is Necessary
When God was about to destroy the town of Nineveh that was riddled with sin, he called the prophet Jonah and sent him to preach repentance! Jonah preached and the people repented and God relented. God changed his mind. He no longer wanted to destroy the people who were great sinners for they had changed their lives. However, there was something strange and interesting about the whole experience. G

The Voice of the Voiceover for the Peter and the Whimper-Whi
For all of you who have purchased the Peter and the Whimper-Whineys App, which is available on the iTunes store, (http://itunes.apple.com/tw/app/id458319657?mt=8) I thought I would share some background information. The App is really cute since it allows a child several choices:  1. Listen to the story as the voiceover reads each page, swishing the pages to get to the next illustration, 2. Just r

Back when I was young III
When I was two years old, my family moved from Kentucky to Northern Indiana. Now, if I were to follow the pattern and were talking to the young kids of today, I Would be telling them a tale that would go something like the following: I had just turned two when the family took a vote and decided to move up north! This required me to be awake for eighteen hours showing my dad and older brothe

Occupy Wall Street: The View from Davos
[caption id="attachment_4634" align="aligncenter" width="275" caption="2010 Protest at World Economic Forum"][/caption] The World Economic Forum Weighs In A British acquaintance has sent me a link to one of the background documents to be used when world leaders gather for the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland January25-29. The document is called Global Risks 2012 (http://www3.we

Happy Chinese New Year!
Ancient Chinese culture, being predominantly agrarian, looked to Chinese New Year to mark the end of the winter season and beginning of the agricultural year. Therefore, Chinese New Year is also known as ‘Spring Festival’ and is characterized by a series of festivities, starting on the darkest phase of the moon in the first lunar month and ending on the brightest 15 days later. There are a n

Preparedness: A Good Alternative to Denial
[caption id="attachment_4621" align="aligncenter" width="259" caption="Community garden in New York City"][/caption] Book Review-Part VI Fleeing Vesuvius, New Zealand Edition (2011, Feasta and Living Economies) Fleeing Vesuvius finishes with an Epilogue (Part 7), in which different authors give practical suggestions about preparing for the eventual collapse of our present energy intens

Clairo...
Giving Hope Passing a building, a chill enters me. I feel something wrong within, but what. I slow and turn, facing the edifice, and the cold runs deeper now, almost painfully so. I close my eyes and battle against it, though I feel more rented hearts and souls calling out in pain, in hope, in desperation. I put up defenses to shield myself from the silent onslaught, they hold, but the batterin

Newt Gingrich is a Dirtbag
Long after the politics and the art of personal attacks perfected by him are forgotten and he is relegated tolthe trash heap where he belongs, his memory and legacy will be, like Bill Clinton's, hypocrisy, faithless narcissism and a sense of unclean anxiety from his low and sewer dwelling personality. The man is a true creep.  Just ask his mistresses. Not the ones he married.

The Recipe for Change in a Post-Carbon World
[caption id="attachment_4589" align="aligncenter" width="464" caption="http://transitionculture.org/"][/caption] Book Review-Part V (of VI) Fleeing Vesuvius, New Zealand Edition (2011, Feasta and Living Economies) Parts 5 and 6 of Fleeing Vesuvi

Surviving the Collapse - Possible Strategies
[caption id="attachment_4503" align="aligncenter" width="276" caption="Biochar pellets"][/caption] Book Review-Part IV (of VI) Fleeing Vesuvius, New Zealand Edition (2011, Feasta and Living Economies) Parts 3 and 4 of Fleeing Vesuvius, "New Ways of Using the Land" and “Dealing with Climate Change," focus mainly on  local and national strategies for reducing fossil fuel use (both to

Another Myth of Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year has not only cultural significance, but religious significance as well. In ancient times, Buddhism, Daoism and Confucianism all had adherents in China. One myth surrounding some of the elements of Chinese New Year is grounded in Buddhism. Legend has it that Buddha invited all the animals to join him on Chinese New Year but only 12 came. Buddha named a year after each animal an

Attack on Marriage
Why is it so important for secular and homosexual lobbies to destroy traditional marriage? When they enjoy all of the privileges formally accorded to marriage, why do they want to redefine marriage: they want to remove any express mention of marriage as being between a man and a woman, but allow the definition to be so loose as to remove any mention of it requiring the consenting parties to be

Money and Energy Scarcity
Local currency used in Ithaca, NY Book Review-Part III Fleeing Vesuvius, New Zealand Edition (2011, Feasta and Living Economies) The second part of Fleeing Vesuvius is entitled "Innovation in business, money and finance." It draws on the main theme of Part I, describing how the current economic crisis is a direct result of fossil fuel scarcity and spiking energy costs. The second sec

Memories: Icebox Soup!
Now, for those of you who are wondering what an icebox is, it was the far runner of the refrigerator. For iceboxes, you would take chunks of  ice and put it in a specially designed wooden box to keep the food cold, I believe that I talked about this in one of my other blogs. If you would like to know more about that, contact my e-mail blog site at the end of blog. When I was young, refrigera

History lesson part II - Cain
In the book of Genesis, Cain is the first son of Adam and Eve. In my book "The Fall of Darkness" Cain has a much larger roll in history than just being the first murderer when he killed his brother Able. Cain, a.k.a. Kai is the first creation of Lilith, created to help maintain the balances of nature. Throughout history Cain has played many rolls such as Neptune of Roman mythology,  Posie

Awesome Cover for Gimmy-Jimmy! It's now in illustration, and
My newest book, now in Illustration, is Gimme-Jimmy.  It should be released this spring.  I would like you to meet Jimmy - and here is the cover for the book.  My illustrator, as always, is Kalpart and they are awesome!!  [caption id="attachment_651" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Gimme-Jimmy "][/caption] How a Bully Learns to Share!  James Alexander’s nickname was Gimme-Jimm