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I hope to have my new children's book, An Oconee Christmas soon. Self-publishing has been quite a learning experience--I do hope that many of you will get to see it before Christmas. It is a light hearted look at The Night Before Christmas with a German Santa (in honor of Walhalla) pulling eight Clemson Tigers instead of reindeer.
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Self Help Book Still in the Making |
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Read my blog to see the latest news! Ann is writing a self help non-fiction book about depression. She is currently on her fourth rewrite of the book. The book will provide pages for journaling and profile biblical characters that suffered with struggles similar to our own. She has other writing projects in the works as well.
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 Ann Coogler's story,"Baseball's Bond" appears in Chocolate for a Teen's Dreams. Chocolate for a Teen's Dreams takes a spirited look at the importance of following your heart. These true stories, by contemporary teens and women with insightful recollections, capture the hope and promise of adolescence and the plans every young woman treasures amid academic demands, social obligations, and family pressures.
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 The cadence of drums rolled its deadening rhythm from the television. The body of our young President lay on the wheeled caisson. An atmosphere of shock and denial hung in the air of my aunt’s house.
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A Soul's Cry: My Journey to Faith |
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Ann Coogler
Copyright: Billie Lewis Publications 2007
Mental illness in a family of the Fifties and
Sixties was rarely discussed, even in a home where this disorder was
present. It was as if it would somehow go away if it weren’t mentioned.
As of 2006, 60% of the disability rewards in this country
are due to a mental disorder of some type. The pendulum has swung from
mental illness being a hidden horror, to this disease being as common as a
virus. Even though depression is now a norm in society, it still carries
an aura of unspoken shame for families affected by it.
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While Mama entertained hopes for me as a student of genteel
southern graces, Daddy just wanted me to be a student. Early in my
school career I was inflicted with school phobia. The first day of the
first grade at Calvin H. Wiley Elementary was polio vaccine day.
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