Mildred E. Stanard penned over one-hundred inspirational poems during her lifetime. Her poetry captures key insights into life and motivates the reader to reflect on their own lifes journey and learnings. These fun-to-read, reflective, and inspirational poems provide something for everyone in the family. Topics include love, humor, friendship, children, stress, words with God and more. Mildred grew up during the depression era and lived in several small Midwestern towns as a girl. She married and started a family in the city of Chicago, later moving to the Chicago suburb of Villa Park.

Friendship is usually seen as a vital part of most people's lives in the West. From our friends, we hope to derive emotional support, advice and material help in times of need. In this pioneering book, basic assumptions about friendship are examined from a cross-cultural point of view. Is friendship only a western conception or is it possible to identify friends in such places as Papua New Guinea, Kenya, China, and Brazil? In seeking to answer this question, contributors also explore what friendship means closer to home, from the bar to the office, and address the following:* Are friendships voluntary?* Should friends be distinguished sharply from relatives?* Do work and friendship mix?* Does friendship support or subvert the social order?* How is friendship shaped by the nature of the person, gender, and the relationship between private and public life?* How is friendship affected when morality is compromised by self-interest?This book represents one of the few major attempts to deal with friendship from a comparative perspective. In achieving this aim, it demonstrates the culture-bound nature of many assumptions concerning one of the most basic building-blocks of western social relationships. More importantly, it signposts the future of social relations in many parts of the world, where older social bonds based on kinship or proximity are being challenged by flexible ties forged when people move within local, national and increasingly global networks of social relations.

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Four Eyes, Knock Knees and Nappy Hair is a completed collection of 50 life stories taken directly from my childhood, adolescence and teen years. I want everyone who reads this book to say, " I too have a story to tell and Im going to let my voice be heard." I want this book to empower others in the way that it has empowered me, by embracing who I am today, yesterday and tomorrow and having no regrets. I challenge you to remember your past, learn from it and use these lessons as footprints toward your reality. Thank you for sharing mine.