All across America the county fair comes once a year filling the air with the sights and sounds of family fun. Fair goers can enjoy tasty treats, feel the excitement of thrilling rides, as well as enjoy shows and games all along the midway making the fair experience special. At the end of the summer in 1969, Brick Kirby enjoyed the fair from the inside out. His life as well as many lives, changed when Sanford North Carolina welcomed the thirty seventh edition of the Lee County Fair. Stephen Patterson invites you into a world where life may not always be fair, but it’s always full of mystery and intrigue. Get out the cotton candy and enjoy this book of love, laughter, and the things that leave us feeling like life is one big ride on the roller coaster.

Shares uplifting advice about the virtues of forgiveness, offering strategic and biblically based advice on how to achieve peace and personal fulfillment by letting go of past wrongs.

The Resource for the Independent Traveler For over forty years Let's Go Travel Guides have brought budget-savvy travelers closer to the world and its diverse cultures by providing the most up-to-date information. Includes: · Entries at all price levels with money-saving advice for this expensive country · Must-have tips for planning your trip, getting around, and staying safe · Detailed coverage of food and drink, including a Fukuoka noodle tour · A crash course in Japanglish to help communicate with locals · Extensive coverage of the island paradise of Okinawa · Detailed maps of cities, towns, and the outdoors Featuring not-to-be-missed Experiences Cultural Connections: Sink into sake at a spectacular bathhouse theme park Inside Scoops & Hidden Deals: Save thousands of yen on flights within Japan Off the Beaten Path: Sip pineapple wine at the blissful Nago Pineapple Park Get advice, read up, and book tickets at www.letsgo.com

An exploration of the difficult, but necessary lesson of life—letting go—as a means of healing, maturing, and getting closer to God and who and what is important Letting go isn’t just saying good-bye to people, places, and things, as important as they may be. It's also about letting go of attitudes and ideas, such as perfectionism, resentment, worry, and judgmentalism—that keep us from growing in our relationships with God and others. Letting go is crucial to our spiritual and emotional health. In How Can I Let Go If I Don't Know I’m Holding On?, Linda Douty examines a variety of letting-go struggles and offers ways to move on to a deeper spirituality. Weaving together her own experiences and the stories of others, she offers strategies for letting go of the things that keep us from a deeper relationship with the Divine. With practical suggestions and updated versions of spiritual classics such as lectio divina, plus questions for study and reflection, this book is a rich resource for personal spiritual growth as well as for group study. “Every major spiritual tradition endorses a key piece of wisdom: It is by giving up, letting go, and renouncing attachments that we achieve fulfillment and job in life. Linda Douty’s book is a wide guide to accomplish this vital lesson.”—Larry Dossey, MD, author of The Extraordinary Power of Ordinary Things, Reinventing Medicine, and Healing Words

Join six writers on their journey through a ten-week writing workshop. Discover how each solution to their problems can lead you past your own self-doubts and creative dilemmas. Joel Saltzman serves as guide, guru and writing coach, providing the wisdom, courage, and occasional one-liners that will get you writing your best work ever. ....Bottom line? As writers, the problems we encounter are pretty universal. Luckily, so are the solutions.

The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.