“For seven years, I worked very closely with Shar Boerema, encouraging ministry wives. ...Often Shar’s life experiences with Ben helped people in our meetings who also had disabled children. Shar’s love and hope for Ben made it a transformative experience for the women. This is why I’m so pleased Shar has given herself to the arduous task of putting her life with Ben in print. Shar’s faith and depth of love will delight any reader.” Gail MacDonald, author, wife and ministry partner to Gordon MacDonald. Benjamin’s siblings became extremely vulnerable for this book. Shar has included letters and articles they wrote honestly about life with a brother who broke all the social rules. AND, you’ll find resources for siblings of special needs persons inside! “Even when he's being facetious he will bring smiles to strangers and friends faces, something I certainly don't do, which makes me smile just thinking about him poking someone with a scowl, declaring "bubbee," and turning away. Exactly what I want to do to people sometimes." SPC James Boerema, United States Army “I’m shown how to say hello by his bear hugs, sloppy kisses, and loud “Hi!” I was taught how to dance by the silly moves he’ll make when his favorite song comes on the radio. I know to be myself at all times because Ben isn’t afraid to be himself.” Aubrey Boerema, CTRS “...a woman started weeping [at the rehab hospital where Rachel works] and repeating in distraught and soul wrenching tones, “No, no, no, no, no ...” She has had few other words since her injury... I couldn’t handle hearing what I had heard so clearly when I was little: when Ben came to the end of his rope to feel his inability to communicate or be understood, he would cry with words and sounds that only his tongue could form.” Rachel Boerema,OTR/L “Loving a Benjamite means carrying a thousand little coffins and never knowing when a new one will open up and lay a piece of your heart to rest. ... No one imagines motherhood as a distant gaze from their toddler’s gorgeous eyes and the emotionally draining attempts to connect with them all day. Little girls don’t grow up thinking that their big brother won’t have a conversation with them, ever. Grandparents don’t expect to counsel and console sons and daughters ... exhausted, angry and heartbroken. Dads don’t expect to try teaching their sons to shave while knowing that it will always be someone else’s job.” Jen Boerema Miller

Often, we meet the person we want to live with for the rest of our lives before we have learnt how to love. In order to realise her dream of music, a young girl, Rebecca Murray, who came to the city to work hard, was cheated for renting an apartment and became acquainted with her landlord Victor Lloyd. The opening plot of the novel is very attractive, sleeping Rebecca met “lothario” into the room, and drunken "lothario" was pulled down the stairs, sleeping in the hallway, it looks very funny. The two people also know each other since then. In the following days, they live together as landlord and tenant, and love begins to sprout. Rebecca, a cheerful girl, is not pessimistic and depressed after being cheated out of all her money. Instead, she works part-time to earn money, and studies music in her spare time, in order to get closer to her music dream. Rebecca is a girl who doesn't pursue money and dares to love and hate. She is not moved by rich man; after receiving an unknown slap, she knows how to fight back and how to protect herselve; in the bar hidden drugs incident, in order to protect the bar and innocent people, she takes the initiative to "admit guilt". All of these show that Rebecca is a kind-hearted girl. In the face of the harsh requirements of Victor Lloyd family's daughter-in-law, she does not feel inferior and does not retreat, but is self-improvement. She ultimately stands on the hall of music.

Often seen as a political sop to the racial fears of white voters, aggressive policing and draconian sentencing for illegal drug possession and related crimes have led to the imprisonment of millions of African Americans—far in excess of their representation in the population as a whole. Michael Javen Fortner shows in this eye-opening account that these punitive policies also enjoyed the support of many working-class and middle-class blacks, who were angry about decline and disorder in their communities. Black Silent Majority uncovers the role African Americans played in creating today’s system of mass incarceration. Current anti-drug policies are based on a set of controversial laws first adopted in New York in the early 1970s and championed by the state’s Republican governor, Nelson Rockefeller. Fortner traces how many blacks in New York came to believe that the rehabilitation-focused liberal policies of the 1960s had failed. Faced with economic malaise and rising rates of addiction and crime, they blamed addicts and pushers. By 1973, the outcry from grassroots activists and civic leaders in Harlem calling for drastic measures presented Rockefeller with a welcome opportunity to crack down on crime and boost his political career. New York became the first state to mandate long prison sentences for selling or possessing narcotics. Black Silent Majority lays bare the tangled roots of a pernicious system. America’s drug policies, while in part a manifestation of the conservative movement, are also a product of black America’s confrontation with crime and chaos in its own neighborhoods.

Containing detailed summaries on a comprehensive range of clinical scenarios and conditions, and organised according to the different sub-specialities of community paediatrics, this handbook is an ideal companion for anyone working with children in the community.

The second edition of this well-received book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date description of the diagnosis and management of dysphagia, including oral, pharyngeal, and esophageal dysfunction. All aspects of dysphagia are covered, with detailed consideration of anatomy, physiology, and pathology. In addition to a variety of benign and malignant disease entities, signs and symptoms, and treatment approaches, many other relevant topics are addressed, including endoscopy, manometry, malnutrition, dehydration, oral care, dementia, ethics, and the social and psychologic impacts of dysphagia. Specific aspects of importance in pediatric and geriatric patients are highlighted. This edition features a number of completely new chapters focusing on, among other subjects, dysphagia in further disease contexts and following laryngectomy and radiation therapy. The authors are without exception world-leading experts in their fields. The book will be of value for practitioners in all specialties involved in the evaluation and treatment of dysphagia. It is therefore a truly multidisciplinary project.

Paul Farrugia is experienced information technologist educated in Australia and has come across a kaleidoscope of technologies; some now antiques in the authors own life time. A technology career would seem at first far removed from any works poetry or even a literary career. Yet are not both means of capturing at the very least a message? Poetry is the time honoured way of capturing vision and the thoughts of mind and heart throughout history. It also has become the authors tool of exploration just as wooden ships were in the past. My unfathomable ocean of discovery is the emotion of heart, love, vision of mind. I search in the mundane drudgery of everyday life, from the highs of loves peaks to desolation of self, in the windswept desert of lioness and everything in between. These are the familiar landscapes we all traverse in life, the very core of who we are inside. In essence this is very meaning of the journey in poetry I have begun.

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