March 24, 2009 by Victor Volkman.

Ken MacLean was invited on the Angelo Campione show to talk about his spiritual beliefs and empowering philosophy. “Fundamental universal principles make sense to everyone because they resonate to our common spiritual heritage,” says Ken.”I believe that deep within us is the latent understanding of our spiritual origins, and the existence of universal laws that are based upon the quintessential unity of spirit and matter — an underlying, but invisible substrate that permeates and composes all things.”Ken is a healer and has been trained in Reiki and Urevia, which are vibrational healing modalities that draw forth from the ethers, the subtle energy of Spirit. The unity of spirit and matter is the fundamental truth of our universe, Ken says. These subjects are not incompatible with science or rational thought, despite those who choose to think otherwise.

Ken is a spiritual author interested in spirituality, science, music, Toastmasters, geometry, and disk golf. Ken has written 8 books, produced 3 movies and written over 100 articles in the spirit/mind/body framework. He has also written a math/geometry book.

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March 24, 2009 by Victor Volkman.

I’m finally in the right time and place to begin using EDITOR, an electronic proofreader (by Serenity Software) for the next book  as the author is a first-time writer and a UK writer, I knew I need some serious big guns to get through it.

EDITOR is relentless and gives you six stages of proofing. I’ve already made back my 50 bucks, it would
have cost me $250 to farm this editing out and I think it does a more thorough job than humans. It does
take time, like anything else, but as I’m strapped for cash its worthwhile at the moment. Of course many things need a judgement call, but I’m finding 95% of the time it is correct: there is a better way to say this.  Worse, it’s also teaching me by example how to be a better editor and I’m seeing mistakes in my own emails!  One thing which is always spot-on is its analysis for sentences that need commas.  Many first-time writers eschew the comma to their own detriment.

Unfortuantely, the user interface is a bit bizarre and you MUST read the instructions. But once you get
the hang of it, its pretty OK to use. It is NOT a MS Word plug in, but it does read Word files as long as
you don’t have too many pictures in them. Some of the best features are its “POLISH” module which plucks out trite phrases and pretentious verbiage. The “WORD” analysis module highlights pet phrases and repetitions which will bore the reader.

The value-for-money is unbeatable, I give it 5 starts

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March 22, 2009 by Victor Volkman.

Aurthors Airwaves is proud to feature a special podcast “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music” by Janet Riehl on our live station and through the PODCAST link below. Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary is Janet’s family love story, a remembrance narrated in story poems that traverses the boundaries of life and death. In the words of one reviewer, the collection offers “village wisdom for the 21st century.”Janet’s writing has also been published in numerous literary venues including the Harvard Review, Cream City Review, and the International Poetry Review. Hot Flashes: More Sexy Little Poems and Stories is one of three publications where her work has been anthologized. She was twice selected as finalist for Poet Laureate of Lake County, California.

JANET GRACE RIEHL calls herself a country girl who roamed the world, then followed her heart back home.A seasoned writer, artist, musician, and storyteller, Janet defies the stereotype of a down-home, heartland gal. Her travels have taken her across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, where she initiated and directed development projects, provided training, and taught. Her cross-cultural focus continued upon her return to the U.S. in her work with Native American pueblos, inner-city African Americans, Latinos, and—perhaps most foreign of all—the California computer industry. Janet was also the recipient of a three-year leadership fellowship in international development from the Kellogg Foundation.

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March 13, 2009 by Victor Volkman.

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March 13, 2009 by Victor Volkman.

I am very pleased to announce a new quarterly journal which follows the interests of our authors in the areas of personal growth, relationships, trauma recovery, living with disabilities, the struggle for identity, and bereavement in adults, children and elders.  Karim Khan (a.k.a. Ernest Dempsey) who has been at the helm of a successful literary quarterly The Audience Review (http://www.worldaudience.org/pubs_aud_rev_issues.html )
has accepted the post of Senior Editor for this project, ensuring it will come to fruition.

As such, we are soliciting articles including essays, memoirs, poetry, and art in all areas.  Articles should be 1,000 to 4,000 words and submitted in plain text format.  All though we aren’t really interested in reprinting material from existing printed books or journals, you can of course mine your own blog posts or other electronic media writings you have done in the past. You can direct ALL submissions to Karim directly at dempsey87 “at” yahoo.com

Once we get off the ground, we hope to have specific “themed” issues, but first things first

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March 5, 2009 by Victor Volkman.

Alan E. Smith author of UnBreak Your Health: The Complete Guide to Complementary & Alternative Therapies interviews renowned Mind/Body expert Bruce Lipton, author of The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter, & Miracles. Bruce Lipton, Ph.D. is a cellular biologist whose career took him from the University of Wisconsin’s Medical School to Stanford University’s Medical School. His breakthrough studies on the cell membrane revealed that the outer layer of the cell was the equivalent of a brain which led to the new science of Epigenetics or the New Biology.

They say you can’t “unbreak the mirror”, meaning the damage is done. In the world of healthcare the analogy would be mainstream medicine treating the symptoms of the broken mirror with drugs to try and glue it back together. To UnBreak Your Health™ means discovering the real source of the problem and treating all of it. In this book, you’ll find information new and old and begin to see patterns and concepts between therapies that are consistent through thousands of years and across civilizations around the world.

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February 22, 2009 by Victor Volkman.

On February 16th, 2009, Suzanne Lieurance of Book Bites for Kids interviewed child psychologist, play therapist, and mom Laurie Zelinger about her new book for caregivers entitled The O, MY in Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy: How to Prepare Your Child for Surgery.

Dr Zelinger was inspired to write her book, The “O, MY” in TonsillectOMY & AdenoidectOMY: How to Prepare Your Child for Surgery, a Parent’s Manual, by her actual experience with her son’s tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy. She wrote it to help other parents and children benefit from her family’s experience.Dr. Zelinger’s concept of preparing a child for surgery is based upon the premise that information and preparation will reduce anxiety and help families to better manage the experience. She writes in simple language and provides scripts that parents can read to their children in order to explain the upcoming procedure.

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February 22, 2009 by Victor Volkman.

Frances Shani Parker appeared on the Aging With Grace show with host Particia Grace to talk about issues related to taking care of aging parents, hospice, and the challenges faced by urban minorities in end-of-life care. Frances Shani Parker is a writer, consultant, and hospice volunteer. Her writing has won awards from Writer’s Digest, the Poetry Society of Michigan, the Detroit Writer’s Guild, Broadside Press, and the New Orleans Public Library. Among publications including her work are Black Arts Quarterly (Stanford University), Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas (Chicago State University), and Voices of the Civil Rights Movement (AARP). Among venues at which her poems have been read are the International AIDS Conference in South Africa and “Artists Among Us,” sponsored by the Michigan Wayne County Council for Arts, History, and Humanities.

Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes is the captivating account of Frances Shani Parker’s hospice volunteer experiences in Detroit nursing homes. Stories, general information, and poems explore hospice care, urban nursing homes, caregiving, dementia, and disparities in healthcare. Pain management, death preparations, bereavement, and strategies for improving healthcare and nursing homes are also examined. This groundbreaking book has several national endorsements. “Becoming Dead Right” is published by Loving Healing Press and is available at Amazon.com., Barnes and Noble bookstores, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Marketplace, and other booksellers.

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February 15, 2009 by Victor Volkman.

On February 10th, 2009 Dr. Arron Grow interviewed Karen H. Sherman, PhD about her new book Mindfulness and the Art of Choice: Transform Your Life from Loving Healing Press. Each person is entitled to have “the good life.” Most don’t experience this because of getting caught up in reacting, continually recycling old patterns that keep you stuck and emotionally frozen. By practicing the simple tools in Mindfulness and the Art of Choice, you’ll learn how to live mindfully and create the great life you want. The Art of Choice Will Make a Difference Understand why you have not been able to achieve the life you desire Become aware of the signals that indicate you are responding in an old “knee-jerk” reactive patterns Notice and turn off old negative thought patterns Learn ways to heal old leftover emotional wounds Deal with specific everyday issues that get in the way of a satisfying, joyous life

Karen Sherman, Ph.D., has been in private practice for over 20 years. Her first book, “Marriage Magic! Find It, Keep It, and Make It Last” was originally published in 2004 with co-author Dale Klein. She is also a contributing author to “101 Ways to Self-Improvement, Vol. 2,” a featured writer on “Yahoo Personals,” has a weekly blog on ThirdAge.com, and writes the Disputes column for Hitchedmag.com. She is interviewed regularly in the media, and is a frequent guest on both national and international talk radio stations. Dr. Sherman conducts a variety of workshops on relationships and lifestyle issues. She serves on the faculty at CW Post University and she is active in many counseling associations. Karen resides on Long Island, New York, is married and has two daughters. In her spare time, Karen enjoys reading, traveling, and playing Suduko.

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February 15, 2009 by Victor Volkman.

Alan E. Smith author of UnBreak Your Health: The Complete Guide to Complementary & Alternative Therapies interviews  Marian Volkman, President of the Traumatic Incident Reduction Association, on September 25, 2008. She is also a trainer who has taught Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) workshops to therapists, ministers, and peer counselors all over the world including Russia, England, Canada, Japan, and Australia.  In addition to being an instruction, she is also an accomplished practitioner with four decades of expeience as well as  being an author on the subject of TIR and Metapsychology..

They say you can’t “unbreak the mirror”, meaning the damage is done. In the world of healthcare the analogy would be mainstream medicine treating the symptoms of the broken mirror with drugs to try and glue it back together. To UnBreak Your Health™ means discovering the real source of the problem and treating all of it. In this book, you’ll find information new and old and begin to see patterns and concepts between therapies that are consistent through thousands of years and across civilizations around the world.

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