Last Day of 2009 update from Debbie Dunn

Debbie Dunn conducted her Be Bully Free program in a Georgia school and five East Tennessee schools since the school year began. She tells three stories to the whole school that teaches coping-with-bullies skills. The stories also focuses on the importance of practicing your talents and skills instead of bullying. This is followed by a 2-hour workshop with 49 target students who will put on the one-size fits all poncho costumes and perform a 7-act play for the entire school, parents, and press that afternoon. The play is called “No Bullies in the Kingdom.” Finally, the teachers are provided with a learning CD of all kinds of follow-up activities to continue to reinforce the concepts learned about victims of bullying, witnesses of bullying, and bullies. Debbie is willing to travel anywhere to conduct this program for negotiable rates. For more information, please visit http://moredunntales.com/id5.html

Debbie’s 2nd novel was published in December of 2009 called White Reindeer, Kudzu Monster, & Other Tales Of Wonder. For more information about this book, please visit http://askdjlyons.com. Her first novel called The Bell Witch Unveiled At Last! The True Story Of A Poltergeist was published in March 2008. For more information about this book, please visit http://bellwitchunveiled.com. Both books were written under her pen name of DJ Lyons.

Lastly, Debbie has the honor of being the School Conflict Resolution Examiner for Examiner.com at the national level. She posts free stories, role-plays, articles, and lesson plans on the topics of bullying, conflict resolution, and character education from the curriculum she created from 1998 to 2003 called 3 C’s: Character Education, Conflict Resolution, Communication Skills. Feel free to use any of these articles, stories, and role-plays with the young people in your life. Please visit http://www.examiner.com/x-16041-School-Conflict-Resolution-Examiner. She also writes articles for Associated Content.com, eHOW.com, and other sites.

How to use a Goldilocks and Three Bears outline to help you write an outline of your own

How to use a Goldilocks and Three Bears outline to help you write an outline of your own
When writing an outline, you want to break the story down to its plot and essential ingredients. What happens first? What things happen in the middle and in what order? What happens in the end? Perhaps this example of an outline of the familiar children’s story called “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” will help you see the process of how to create an outline of your own.

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How to Improve Your Creative Writing Skills

How to Improve Your Creative Writing Skills
One of the fun challenges about writing is that there is always room for growth and improvement. It is an on-going process that can benefit from the passage of time and practice. Here are ten tips that might help improve your creative writing skills.

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How to Choose The Correct Homonym When You Write

How to Choose The Correct Homonym When You Write
People often mis-use words when they write a thank you note, letter, story, article, or book. Here are some clarifications of the correct and incorrect way to use several homonyms and other words that sound alike yet have different definitions.

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How to practice Self-Healing using the Reintegration Healing Process

How to practice Self-Healing using the Reintegration Healing Process
Here is the step-by-step process to follow as you practice Self-Healing using the Reintegration Healing Process. It is a combination of elements I learned at Delphi University in McCaysville, GA, Reiki classes I have taken, and a process taught to me by my team of angels and spirit guides.

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How to Love Your Body Every Step of The Way-Weigh

How to Love Your Body Every Step of The Way-Weigh
Imagine that every time you condemn yourself for being overweight, your inner child is trapped in an icy tomb. The only way you can free her and yourself is to embrace and love your body as it is this very moment.

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How to Change Inner Programming to Lose Rather Than Gain Weight

How to Change Inner Programming to Lose Rather Than Gain Weight
Are you trying to lose weight? Have you lost weight and gained some or all of it back? Are you despairing of ever meeting your weight-loss goals? Here is how to change your inner programming to lose rather than gain weight.

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How to Make Chicken Mushroom Soup That Tastes Homemade

How to Make Chicken Mushroom Soup That Tastes Homemade
Do you want to cook delicious chicken mushroom soup that tastes homemade but only takes about ten minutes to make? It is also economical and easy to make. You and your loved ones will savor this tasty treat.

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How to View Your Weight Loss Journey Spiritually

How to View Your Weight Loss Journey Spiritually
Are you trying to lose weight? Have you lost weight and gained some or all of it back? Are you despairing of ever meeting your weight-loss goals? Here is how to have a spiritual view of your weight loss journey.

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White Reindeer book is now published

Hooray! My White Reindeer book is now published as of today – barely in time for Christmas! It is being sold for $22.95 on my Publisher’s website.

This week only, if you put in the coupon code of “Merry50″, you can buy the book for 50% off plus $.99 shipping if you don’t mind waiting for 5 to 21 days. After this week, it is back to its full price of $22.95 plus shipping.

My Bell Witch book can be found at this link. They sell it for $24.95. Once again, this week only, if you put in the coupon code of “Merry50″, you can get it at 50% off as well plus shipping.

For more information on my Bell Witch book, you can visit my Bell Witch book & show website. For more information on my White Reindeer book, you can visit my White Reindeer book & show website.

Happy Holidays to all of you. With much love,
Debbie Dunn aka DJ Lyons

My White Reindeer book soon to be published

Hey, Blog readers, I am so excited! My publisher finally came up with the book cover for my book that is soon to be published. My book, written under my pen name of DJ Lyons, is entitled White Reindeer, Kudzu Monster, & Other Tales of Wonder. I am very pleased with the cover they came up with.

I really did have a white reindeer show me the way to safety get down from a mountain that I sort of accidentally – on purpose climbed when I was 21 and on a college abroad in Norway. I was not able to get a picture of that very majestic reindeer that might have actually been an angel in disguise. When I knew I wanted to get this book published, I found a reindeer farm in Scotland that I contacted. They sold me this picture of a white reindeer named Dapple. They actually have reindeers that you can adopt/sponsor. Check out their website to find out more. Here’s the link to my page that links to their page: Adopt a Reindeer

My book is due to be published in the next few days. I am so excited! If you want more information, you can visit my white reindeer website.

Conflict Resolution 101: More about Stairstep Thinking and Virtual Reality

If you feel anger or other feelings of angst, try an anger management method called “Stairstep Thinking” and also utilize a process of creating Virtual Realities in your mind. It just might do the trick to getting you to feel content and at peace once again.

As a teacher, you can use this article to stimulate class discussion. As a person seeking a method of anger management that could help, read this article and see if it works for you.

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Conflict Resolution 101: What is Stairstep Thinking?

A great method of managing feelings of anger ties in closely with the SPAM Method and also with the suggestion that Tim gave to Blake in the story called “Angry Blake.” It is a method called STAIRSTEP THINKING.

Click on CONFLICT RESOLUTION to read the entire article.

Be Bully Free play presented at Cedar Grove Elem. School with Debbie Dunn

Debbie Dunn leads students in a play with anti-bullying and positive school climate elements at Cedar Grove Elementary in Sullivan County Schools, Tennessee.

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K-Designers can build you a new home at your old address

K-Designers can build you a new home at your old address. That would be a great option. I just finished watching one of those “Extreme Makeover” shows where they come in with a demolition team, tear down the house, and re-build it in 6 or 7 days while the family vacations somewhere. Now I’m not sure that people would want to tear their home up down to the studs on a regular basis, though I suppose that would be an option with K-Designers. It is interesting to visit their website and see the before and after pictures.

Terry Bradshaw hosts his Winner’s Circle show. He featured K-Designers on YouTube.com. You can watch the video at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMQaTkjbNxc . The picture I included shows Larry Judson, the president and CEO of K-Designers. He and Lee Judson started the company back in 1978 with only four employees in Casper, Wyoming. As reported on this video, more than 25 years later, they are the fourth-largest home remodeling company in the country.

K-Designers will custom design your home to make it look just the way you would like it to look. That is a great option. Let’s say you had your home built twenty or thirty years ago. You would have, of course, used materials and designs popular in that time period. Then, as the years passed, you learned of better designs and features that you would dearly love to have. If you are anything like my husband and I with only four years left to pay on our mortgage, we are not about to pick up and buy a new home. With the thought of living mortgage-free in only four years, I can see the real benefit of having a company like K-Designers come along to spruce up your existing home with features that were not possible or available back when you first bought your house.

They have eleven branch locations in the western part of our country. Their four employees have expanded to over 900. So for the lucky people who live out where one of the branches where K-Designers is located, you might want to consider sprucing up your home as well with custom-design work by the personnel at K-Designers.

Eyeglasses makes such a difference in how we view the world

Eyeglasses makes such a difference in how we view the world. I did not have to use glasses until I was in fifth grade. The teachers noticed that I was squinting when I tried to see the chalkboard. This was quite a surprise as no one else in my family needed to use glasses. I think it’s because my parents would make me go to bed so early, I was not sleepy. Therefore, I would grab my handy flashlight and read until I got tired enough to sleep. I most likely strained my eyes.

Back in 1968, when I had to get my first pair of glasses, they did not have a very good selection. The glasses I got were not becoming to my face. I would have given anything to have a company such as Eyeglasses.com who has a huge selection of frames to choose from. Additionally, if my grandmother had a company to shop at when she got her glasses, perhaps she wouldn’t have gone for years wearing those unbecoming cat-eye frames. Plus, since she was somewhat of a shut-in in her later years, the convenience of being able to order the frames on the internet would have made a huge difference in her life. It would have been great for me as well. Of course, back when I was young, they didn't have such a thing as computers.


Check out the picture I included from their website. That’s how I felt when I finally put my first pair of glasses on. It was amazing. I could see individual leaves on a tree as opposed to just a blob of leaves. I could read the board. I could see movies. I could make out the fine details of our black and white television that we had for years and years. Having eyeglasses that were the right prescription for me made such a huge difference of how I viewed the world.

Sak Narwal has a passion for fishing

There are many people who enjoy fishing. Sak Narwal doesn’t just enjoy it. Fishing is his absolute passion.

I wonder when Sak Narwal developed this passion? Was this something that happened when he was a young boy? My husband tells me that when a father takes his son fishing, it is like a ‘right of passage’. He and I went to Davy Crockett Birthplace State Park and saw a boy of about eight and a close family friend sharing the joys and pleasures of fishing. They ended up catching a small carp. It was fun to watch their intense concentration as they watched for some fish to catch hold of the line. I actually took a video of the fish he caught. The boy’s name was Cameron. I named the video “Cameron Catches A Carp.” If you want to see it, click on the video title. The photo shows Cameron and the neighbor as they fish.

I can just imagine Sak Narwal as a young boy catching a fish under the careful guidance of his father, his uncle, or perhaps a grandfather. Since I love alliteration, we could call the experience:

* Sak Snags a Salmon.

* Sak Spots a Spotted Green Puffer

* Sak Shows off his Sunfish.

Since his full name is Sak Narwal, let’s get some alliteration with his last name as well.

* Narwal Notices a Neon Tetra

* Narwal' Notes a Northern Mountain Swordtail

* Narwal’s Norman's Lampeye

Are there other fishing enthusiasts out there? If so, please share about what age you were when you first started fishing. Who taught you to fish? What kind of fishing pole did you use? What kind of lures? Do you have a good fishing tale to share? I’d love to hear it.

Steve Stevanovich supports the work of the Stevanovich Center

Steve Stevanovich supports the work of the Stevanovich Center. The Stevanovich Center is located on 5734 S. University Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. It is part of the University of Chicago campus.

The Stevanovich Center will soon have a new home and a new look. Check out the picture to see a sketch of what this center will soon look like, as endorsed by Steve Stevanovich. I love the look of the brick facing - especially the view that shows the bay windows. I wonder, when Steve Stevanovich looks out those windows, what view will he be seeing? Is the view and the building exactly the way he envisioned? Will the view and the building also match the vision of the other people who also support this center?

As you can see from the many windows on this sketch, there are multiple rooms in this center. That is a good thing since this building hosts workshops and conferences. It also publishes papers.

Their website indicates that researchers can visit this University of Chicago building to work together, meet each other, and discuss topics of a mathematical, statistical, and economic nature. They can also hold debates and panel discussions about these various financial mathematics subjects. Additionally, they can also meet and discuss some of these topics with Steve Stevanovich himself.

It will be interesting to someday see a picture of the finished building to match against this sketch.

Resources:

The Stevanovic Center for Financial Mathematics