These are great reads...lol...or great hears...
They really are awesome!
I didnt know about some of them until I did this research!
Check them out!
Thanks!
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Ann Kagarise Photography
Thursday, July 30, 2009
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Friday, July 17, 2009
Okay God
Now, all I did was say lead me into a different direction, open up the doors of opportunity and bam, they are just coming like crazy! It's all about the message. That is the most important part of the whole thing! It's all about the person I'm able to write about. The Vietnam Veterans and their contribution. Now, I'm asked to help write a book about kids with cancer. These are all blessings! I am the one that is blessed! If He allows me to go around Ohio interviewing families whose kids had cancer or have it...wow.. These kids have so much wisdom. They 'GET it.' They understand what is important. And to get the opportunity to convey their thoughts and beliefs in their words on the writte page is such an extremely great honor. I'm very thankful! I pray that this does go through! What a great experience! The kids have lessons to teach all of us! And I want to hear it! And write it! To put their faces with their words on a page so they can get their wisdom out for all to hear is a gift! Wow!
Wow!
When it rains, it pours good! I'm so excited! I did a complete photo shoot for the Ohio Vietnam Wall Memorial that opened this year. I have been asked to do all their photos! What an honor, really! I look at that as a complete blessing! I'm going out there tomorrow to do a shoot 2 different times for vets. Also, yesterday was an amazing experience. I always consider it a blessing to be invited into a situation that I have no business being there just because I am a reporter. I have was asked back to Camp Quality this year. It is a camp to allow kids with cancer to be kids again. The director always has such a great heart and is so inviting to me. She leads me to some of the toughest situations and allows me to sit down with these kids. Two years ago, I was able to sit down with a 17-year-old that died only 3 months after our interview. I learn so much from these kids! I appreciate very much Kerri, the director, and all they do at Camp Quality! After that experience, I came home and I was chilling around a fire outside. There were seven kids at my house going crazy!! They were swimming and running around, eating all my food...lol. Then, my neighbor showed me the humming bird hanging around its nest in the tree. I grabbed my camera and captured one of the best photos I have ever seen. This one I'm selling!!!...lol. This is an amazing picture of the humming bird in its nest! Talk about blessings! It was an end to a perfect day!
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Yikes!
I have already submitted 2 posts to the Examiner. I did a review on the book, Tweak and I did a piece on the website Voicerisingcleveland.org. If you have a parent of a young adult or are one, you need to check this site out. My posts will have a variety of local literary interests, sites, and activites as well as many national ones. The was one thing that really did disturb me, however. I went into their diary section. This allows teens/young adults to express themselves. They can talk about anything that may be on their minds and just about all of the posts had to do with self-harm and drug addiction. One girl just came out withe subject reading: Help! She put I am a cutter and I am going to commit suicide! I hope they were able to help her.
This shows me how sad our young adults are. Young adult literature shows the state of our young adults. It is scary. I believe that they feel abandoned and are deeply hurting. You can see the fears in their writing. Go on this site and check it out. Read some blogs of some young adults. Go on my space or other social networking sites and see what they are telling the world. It really is scary.
This shows me how sad our young adults are. Young adult literature shows the state of our young adults. It is scary. I believe that they feel abandoned and are deeply hurting. You can see the fears in their writing. Go on this site and check it out. Read some blogs of some young adults. Go on my space or other social networking sites and see what they are telling the world. It really is scary.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
It's Official
I am an Examiner. I'm excited about this new writing adventure. I am officially the Cleveland Young Adult Literature Examiner. I will add the link to my blog soon. I should start to be published by mid-week. If you know me at all, you know that I am a young adult literature junkie. I am either writing them or reading them. I have been working on a young adult book for quite awhile now. Unfortunately, I have not had much time to work on it, but I am changing that. As my kids go back to school in about a month, I am going to be devoting most of my time to working on my book and writing about young adult books and entertainment. I love the job they offered me. I finished my first piece and am working on my second. I am going to have many links for teens, their parents, and teachers. The links have to do with, of course, literature and entertainment, but also I will be writing about issues that teens face today. I will also be providing local and national resources to help.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
A Cancer Center with a Heart
Cancer can be scary and lonely. At the moment of diagnosis, Stewart's will come along side and be a friend. http://www.thesuburbanite.com/lifestyle/x931212097/Stewarts-Caring-Place-helps-cancer-patients
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