In Casey's mind she is a twenty-something female, who is shocked to find she has reached her thirties whilst still unmarried. Feeling lucky to have good friends around her, Casey enjoys her single life and the attentions of more than one man. With a good dose of raunchy fun and the complications that multiple men can bring, Casey's life is certainly interesting. The involvement of these men in her life provides much anticipation and excitement, as well as several thought provoking situations for Casey to deal with. It is Casey's experiences of friendship, loss, lust and worries, along with her dreams, which she decides to share in an Online Diary. In doing so, she captures the interest of someone who is able to influence great change in Casey's life, just at a point when a serious issue interrupts her progress.

Part memoir, part sweeping journalistic saga: As Casey Parks follows the mystery of a stranger's past, she is forced to reckon with her own sexuality, her fraught Southern identity, her tortured yet loving relationship with her mother, and the complicated role of faith in her life. "Most moving is Parks’s depiction of a queer lineage, her assertion of an ancestry of outcasts, a tapestry of fellow misfits into which the marginalized will always, for better or worse, fit." —The New York Times Book Review When Casey Parks came out as a lesbian in college back in 2002, she assumed her life in the South was over. Her mother shunned her, and her pastor asked God to kill her. But then Parks's grandmother, a stern conservative who grew up picking cotton, pulled her aside and revealed a startling secret. "I grew up across the street from a woman who lived as a man," and then implored Casey to find out what happened to him. Diary of a Misfit is the story of Parks's life-changing journey to unravel the mystery of Roy Hudgins, the small-town country singer from grandmother’s youth, all the while confronting ghosts of her own. For ten years, Parks traveled back to rural Louisiana and knocked on strangers’ doors, dug through nursing home records, and doggedly searched for Roy’s own diaries, trying to uncover what Roy was like as a person—what he felt; what he thought; and how he grappled with his sense of otherness. With an enormous heart and an unstinting sense of vulnerability, Parks writes about finding oneself through someone else’s story, and about forging connections across the gulfs that divide us.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I went home to help my grandmother with an old friend of mine, Roy, who ended up being an abusive asshole. I learned a lot about myself, and the fucked-up system we live under. #2 I was scared and my mom offered me cigarettes. I went inside and found my grandma smoking a cigarette. The only thing I knew about her childhood friend was that he had been abusive, but she did not let go of my hand. -> I went home to help my grandmother with an old friend of mine, Roy, who ended up being an abusive asshole. I learned a lot about myself and the fucked-up system we live under. #3 I went home to help my grandmother with an old friend of mine, Roy, who ended up being an abusive asshole. I learned a lot about myself and the fucked-up system we live under. #4 I went home to help my grandmother with an old friend of mine, who ended up being an abusive asshole. I learned a lot about myself and the fucked-up system we live under.

This journal cover features a graphic design of Albert Einstein's notes and signature by artist Cheryl Casey. It is a paperback blank book with lined pages for creative writing, personal reflection, song writing, wherever the imagination leads. Look for other Famous Manuscript designs in this line of journals. The designer is also open to suggestion. - Size 6x9" - 150 pages - Lined - White paper - Softcover/paperback

Journal with Purpose is the ultimate reference for journaling, packed with over 1000 motifs that you can use to decorate and enhance your bullet or dot journal pages. Copy or trace direct from the page, or follow one of the quick exercises to improve your skills. Featuring all the journal elements you could wish for – banners, arrows, dividers, scrolls, icons, borders and alphabets – this amazing value book will be a constant source of inspiration for journaling and an 'instant fix' for people who find the more artistic side of journaling a challenge.

“Many days I believe menopause is the new (if long overdue) frontier for the most compelling and necessary philosophy; Darcey Steinke is already there, blazing the way. This elegant, wise, fascinating, deeply moving book is an instant classic. I’m about to buy it for everyone I know.” —Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts A brave, brilliant, and unprecedented examination of menopause Menopause hit Darcey Steinke hard. First came hot flashes. Then insomnia. Then depression. As she struggled to express what was happening to her, she came up against a culture of silence. Throughout history, the natural physical transition of menopause has been viewed as something to deny, fear, and eradicate. Menstruation signals fertility and life, and childbirth is revered as the ultimate expression of womanhood. Menopause is seen as a harbinger of death. Some books Steinke found promoted hormone replacement therapy. Others encouraged acceptance. But Steinke longed to understand menopause in a more complex, spiritual, and intellectually engaged way. In Flash Count Diary, Steinke writes frankly about aspects of Menopause that have rarely been written about before. She explores the changing gender landscape that comes with reduced hormone levels, and lays bare the transformation of female desire and the realities of prejudice against older women. Weaving together her personal story with philosophy, science, art, and literature, Steinke reveals that in the seventeenth century, women who had hot flashes in front of others could be accused of being witches; that the model for Duchamp's famous Étant donnés was a post-reproductive woman; and that killer whales—one of the only other species on earth to undergo menopause—live long post-reproductive lives. Flash Count Diary, with its deep research, open play of ideas, and reverence for the female body, will change the way you think about menopause. It's a deeply feminist book—honest about the intimations of mortality that menopause brings while also arguing for the ascendancy, beauty, and power of the post-reproductive years.

This is a story about how friends lives become entwined and complicated by the actions of one man. Whilst working undercover, an MI5 agent is instructed to do whatever it takes to bring down the Mafia family he has infiltrated. Danger of death is ever present as the Don is in the frame for a haul of drugs and guns worth millions. Ever the professional and keen not to blow the whole operation, the undercover agent becomes embroiled in a situation which questions his principles, as drug-induced sexual experiences with the Don's daughter distract and challenge his loyalties. The question is, who will be hurt and who will survive?