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                    From a reader...

          "Sometimes I just pick it up and read a chapter (again). At other times I actually review a list I already completed... Thank you once again for reaching out to all of us through your words..."
                                                                 --JMC

          A few Comments from Publishers, Editors, and readers about my writing

      --- "The book has been invaluable!" 
      --- "Great book."
      --- "My friend loved your book!"
      --- "It's as if you wrote it just for me." 
      --- "I loaned your book to my sister and she
            won't give it back." 
      --- "Easy read. Great checklist."  (Happiness book)
​                                                          --- "I love your book. It has really helped me." 
                                                          --- "Beautiful, your writing is just beautiful."
                                                           --- "Your insights are telling ones."     
                                                          --- "Your work is lovely."
                                                          --- "Wow!"
                                                          --- "Lovely reflection"
                                                          --- "Read with interest."
                                                          --- "I loved it!"
                                                          --- "Beautiful" 

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Current book: 
        ***Book, Happiness:  Hidden in Plain Sight
(A Response from Within)

    This book is the average person’s practical guide to everyday psychological insights with emphasis, not only on looking at why we are living mundane lives, but on how to make things much better! Includes over 500 simple pleasures that can increase the quality of your life.
  
Upcoming publications:

     ***Gift Book, Just Be... (Brighton Publishing)


A few of my other published works:

      ***Book, Getting People Involved in Life and Activities:  35 Effective Motivating Techniques, published by Venture Publishing. (This book actively sold for twenty years.)

      *Co-edited the book, From Mass to Mission, by Fr. Joseph Fata. (2015)
         "Midlife Fantasy" ---Senior Wire (Syndicated) Go60 internet magazine
          "Maturity, What Your Mother Never Told You" ---Senior Wire
       "Ten Special Qualities You Want to Give Your Children"---Family Digest
            "Ten Ways to Add Gentleness to Your Life" ---Family Digest
             "A Child Shall Lead Them" ---Standard magazine
               "Heart Prayer" ---Stewardship magazine
               "Directions" ---Mature Living magazine 
               "A Stewardship Reflection" ---Stewardship magazine
             "A Child Shall Lead Them" ---Purpose magazine
                "Hush up World" ---Senior Living 
                "How Did They do That?" ---The Family: A Catholic Perspective
               Guest Editorial ---Akron Beacon Journal
              "Day Camping" ---Mahoning Valley Parent magazine (National award issue)
 "Creating Country Memories" ---Mahoning Valley Parent Magazine (National award issue)    
              "Please Don't Call Me 'Honey" ---Go60 internet magazine
     ***Multiple Greeting cards...eg., Oatmeal Studios, Sunrise Publications, Marian Heath Publications
        "Indifference" poem, ---Ligourian magazine
          Quiz ---Fifty Something magazine, etc.
​          "A Child shall Lead Them" ---Lutheran Digest