There are many men-fathers, brothers, uncles, cousins, friends, and more-who nurture and support the well-being of children. This book is designed to highlight the contributions of Black fathers and male role models in healthy child development. Despite the systemic barriers they face, these men play an important role in raising happy, healthy children.

Fathers Can Be Good Dads is a novel, which is based on true events. Even though dates, houses, names of people, countrysides, and sceneries have been changed, the family interactions are real. However, not all have been the actions of Ginia Marie Giselle Hinson, the heroine of the book. The majority, though, are. When the author was a little girl, she often sat around the family sitting-room table or stood outside the doors, listening as the grown-ups in her family were sharing with loud laughter the mischiefs they had gotten themselves into when they were young. Often, the author wondered how she could improve on these mischiefs just to get a bit more attention. A heartfelt thank you is expressed to all family members and friends the author had listened to. Everyone was an inspiration to her. Also a thank you is given to all those she had interacted with and to all those who got into trouble with her in moments of absolute exuberance where household rules were ignored. The novel is dedicated to every writer who has struggled through the ups and downs of putting together personal memoirs to preserve, in writing for children and their children’s children, an insight into a life that once existed before their own times.

Elly's grandfather has trouble accepting the fact that his son is gay.

Out oth Bushes is about discipleship. Discipleship is about building (growing) relationships, with God and others. As we live our lives as disciples of Jesus, we are constantly involved in moving from being natural (like the world and the flesh) to being spiritual (more and more like Jesus). How do you teach the mind or attitude of Jesus? You do it one principle at a time, one story at a time, one shocking experience at a time.

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Family stories are typically passed down by word of mouth, and thus over the generations much our family history is lost forever. This anthology collects letters and stories actually written down by various people so that future generations can read them and have some inkling of what people were like. Included in the anthology are stories of what it was like growing up in the 1930’s, 1950’s, and 1960’s. Also included are detailed stories of actual events that had significant impact on the individuals who wrote them done, including: • taking a grandmother to church on a sled pulled by an ox • a best friend killed in action during World War I • a tragic car accident that left a man paralyzed • a cattle round-up • a father’s suicide