Books published by Proving Press

When Santa has a problem, everyone pitches in to help. Santa's helper elves try real hard, but Comet is the only one who can save the day and get Christmas back on schedule. This story puts the "Merry" back in Christmas and a "Jingle" back in Santa's step!

Scenes from the Cerebellum is the 9th literary work to be released through Mind Tavern. It is easy to say that it is extremely difficult to describe exactly what this book is, was or will be. Maybe the best way to explain these pages is: It's a "ghost book," a book about death, the Ultimate Reality in life. The Big Jump. The one event in life we are all waiting for. Included therein is a veritable phalanx of mental and photographic images abounding and manifesting on the pages like hundreds of ectoplasmic filaments, squirming out of my mind in the form of poetic excursions for the curious reader to absorb. As with many poetic works, this one screams the same: This is personal!

No one looks into the eyes of their newborn child and thinks, "I can hardly wait for the day that I start yelling at you!" Yet just as the joys of parenting delight us, the stresses of parenting test us. This book offers the tools to relieve these stresses, while also deepening our understanding of the toddler's brain, body and emotions. Plus, with Glance & Go Guides, Sample Scripts,and Illustrated Strategies, it fits seamlessly into the multi-tasking, mobile, always interrupted, time-crunched life of a toddler parent, who (though highly literate) has precious little time to read. From the expertise of parent educator Dr Yvonne Gustafson, once called "the manual children should come with," this book readies parents for the day-to-day challenges of the highly active toddler years with smart, compassionate and age-appropriate parenting support for meltdowns, sleep, sharing, transitions, refusals, whining, biting, toilet training and more. It includes a Playdate Guide, as well as guides to manage the challenges of daily living from grocery shopping to restaurants to chores. The focus is on the toddler, but also the toddler parent, with discussions on temperament, parenting style and the unique rewards, stresses, demands and discoveries of parenting. Grounded in an expert understanding of child development, a philosophy of parenting with respect, affection and support, and attention to parental stressors, needs and overall family dynamics, this book equips parents so that they can feel capable, loving and confident as they, in turn, nurture capable, loving and confident children.

If we are dedicated to facilitating the best futures for our students, we must be fully invested in lifelong learning and our personal and professional growth. In this book, the reader will hear from different educators, each sharing anecdotes and wisdom about becoming more connected, taking risks, and using failures and past experiences to help prepare for the future. Inspirational quotes appear throughout, prompting introspection and a call to action. A student also lends her perspective in a chapter, offering reflection from the other side of the classroom. When we strengthen ourselves as educators, we in turn empower others to do the same. Stronger together, we face whatever the future of learning will bring.

Welcome to the Army is a look back at Dennis Schulze's thirty years of service in the United States Army. The story begins in 1968 at the height of the war in Vietnam. A recent law school graduate, Dennis is preparing to take the bar exam when he's drafted. With one letter, the trajectory of Dennis's life changes forever. These are his experiences.

Michael has been a serious artist since his fifteenth birthday, on which his father bought him his first set of oil paints. Since then, Michael has taken AP art in high school, majored in art at the Ohio State University, and dabbled in painting, illustration, comic book and board game design throughout his ten-year career as a Japanese translator.Michael currently maintains a busy life juggling interpreting and translation work, co-raising his two children with his wife, and somehow finding time to develop three to six long-term projects at a time. But the fear of settling into a banal non-existence acts as a great motivator, and the artist continuously rediscovers that a devotion to storytelling and creation acts as the fuel needed to persist during such small windows of opportunity.

Norman Walters and his longtime business partner Larry have sought out and experienced what most souls are terrified of or can only dream of: The Precipice of Life. From playing music in Greenwich Village in the 1960s, to building a touristic paradise in Peru's deepest, darkest, Amazon rainforest in the 1990s, they have consistently gone against the odds, winning…losing…and calling it even. This is the first chapter in a story of overcoming obstacles, blending cultures, creating a dream, and facing hardship as well as joy with the same bold gusto.Norman Walters spent ten years in the Peruvian Upper Amazon, 110 miles (up the Amazon River by boat) from Iquitos, Peru. This Jungle City of 600,000 inhabitants was reachable (from the outside world) only by water or air. No roads in! He is the co-founder of Yacumama Lodge, which he carved from the jungle in its inception and still operates today. These are his stories.

Carol was a mountain girl and wanted to stay that way, but Daddy had to find work. So, despite misgivings, the Richardson family cranked up the 1936 Dodge and headed for Ohio where the jobs were. They camped overnight by the side of the road and peed in the woods in every state they crossed. After two days and 500 miles, they pulled in front of a sorry-looking brick house on Leap Road in Hilliard, Ohio. It seemed even worse than they'd feared.But Ohio had surprises - many good, some mysterious, a few scary, and a couple sad. The family bumped along in the Leap Road house and life got smoother and better as they went. Then Mom and Daddy started whispering secrets, and that brought the biggest surprise of all.

R.E.S.U.L.T.S. is a book that provides applicable strategies for teaching students to make positive choices, take necessary action and promote growth. This book is an enjoyable mixture of inspiring stories and a framework that promotes positive behavior and responsibility for learning. From R.E.S.U.L.T.S., educators will feel empowered to make a difference in the lives of their students. Let this book encourage you to possibly rediscover the importance of building connections with students.Included in the book is an account from one of Jon and Krista's former students who has benefited from educators who have never given up on her. Her story is an inspiring account of what hard work, drive, and a resilient spirit looks like.

Herrymon Maurer (1914-1998) has created a remarkable new translation of the Tao Teh Ching, inspired by a Quaker understanding of simplicity and religious experience and informed by his immersion in Chinese culture during a 1939-1941 sojourn in rural Sichuan province with his young family. The translation strives to preserve many of the Chinese metaphors as well as the directness of the sacred text and to find English phrases that render, at least to some extent, the beauty and economy of Lao Tz¿'s original. Maurer's masterful commentary helps clarify phrases that may baffle Westerners as he weaves together insights from Christianity, Judaism and Islam to situate the Tao in a context of universal humility and hope. A member of Alcoholics Anonymous, the author was acquainted with the destructive power of self, but had also discovered that the self can learn to live in relationship. First published in 1982, this revised edition of Maurer's translation and expanded commentary on Lao Tz¿'s enduring attempt to proclaim the Way of the Ways is published posthumously by family and friends who share the author's hope that it may be useful to other seekers, as suggested by Chapter 4: Tao is empty! Use it And it isn't used up. Deep! It seems like The forbear of the ten thousand things. It blunts edges, Unties tangles, Harmonizes lights, Unites all dusts. Existent and deep! I don't know whose child it is. It looks to be the source.

No one looks into the eyes of a newborn child and thinks, I can hardly wait until I'm yelling at you. This book acknowledges that we can be both delighted by our preschooler, yet find the work of raising that same preschooler a challenge. This book offers tools to relieve those stressful moments, while deepening our understanding of the preschooler's brain, body, and emotions. With brief sections targeted at the most common parenting issues, this book is designed to be useful in whatever time a parent has.

If the dead could speak from their graves, what would they tell us, the living, about their insights on life and longevity? In Digested by the Dust, the dead come alive again and reveal details about their historic times in Whittier, California at the turn of the 20th Century, their private lives, successes and failures, their secret loves and fantasies, and finally, the circumstances of their unique deaths, all in extended epitaph form.

The Chants of the Mass for Sundays, Solemnities, and Feasts.