Abe Morris Author- MY COWBOY HAT STILL FITS

MY COWBOY HAT STILL FITS

by Abe Morris

If you’ve ever watched a bull rider desperately hang on till the buzzer sounds and shaken your head in amazement as a cowboy picks himself off the ground after being tossed around like a rag doll, this book will tell you why they do it. In his own words, Champion Bull Rider Abe Morris recounts his story from his boyhood in New Jersey at the Cowtown Rodeo through the University of Wyoming and the triumphs and disappointments of competing around the country as one of the very few black rodeo cowboys. This is a story of good friends, tragic losses, prejudicial judges, career-threatening injuries and the ever present recalcitrant bulls.

352 pgs ISBN: 1-932636-14-5 $22.95 Trade Paper

And Abe’s heartbreaking story as he struggles to stay in contact with his son after a contentious divorce, focusing on the falure of the legal systgem to uphold a father’s rights.

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Alma Margaret Permar Author- WRITTEN IN THE MARGINS: POEMS TOUCHING THE ESSENCE OF LIFE

WRITTEN IN THE MARGINS: POEMS TOUCHING THE ESSENCE OF LIFE

by Alma Margaret Permar

Alma Margaret Permar has published WRITTEN IN THE MARGINS: POEMS TOUCHING THE ESSENCE OF LIFE. In the midst of nurturing a family, working in various full-time professional careers, living and traveling throughout the United States and other countries, Alma has continued to write. In this book she has now brought some of the notes from the margins of her experiences into the center of the page. She has integrated her reflections and insights into a collection of very accessible poetry seeded by out universal life experiences of challenge, conflict, change, and celebration.

This is a book that you will want to place on your nightstand with a pen so that you, too, can make notes in its margins as your own reflections and insights emerge. You will not only appreciate reading and engaging these poems, but you will also treasure discovering your own notes written in the margins of this book.

http://www.WrittenByAlma.com

“What a Christmas gift this would be. A writer of poetry, short stories and essays, Alma has now created a book that will touch every reader’s soul.”- Penny Porter

Taken from THE WRITE WORD, the newsletter of the Society of Southwestern Authors Vol. 39. No. 6. Dec. 2010-Jan, 2011