Friday, May 15, 2026

Twenty Last Dates

   Man and Woman at table with line up of men behind the table.


Twenty Last Dates


In this laugh-out-loud dark comedy about modern romance, one woman over 55 survives twenty truly horrible dates and bravely reports back from the digital dating jungle.

Whether you’re 25 or 75, you’ll recognize the madness. Swipe left on sanity and right on disaster in this brutally funny, occasionally cringeworthy, razor- sharp tale about searching for connection in the age of apps. When you're old enough to know better but still hopeful enough to try.

There’s the man who still lives with his wife (for “convenience”), the first date who delivers a full medical history before the coffee arrives, and the gentleman whose impressive stories collapse the moment the check arrives. Add in decade-old photos, creative truths, and enough red flags to decorate a parade, and you have dating in our time.

Smart, biting, and painfully funny, this book proves that sometimes the only winning move in modern love is to laugh... and order dessert alone.



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Thursday, May 14, 2026

MANUFACTURED MINDS: The Invisible Architecture of Algorithmic Control and the Art of Opting Out

    Boy in front of Telephone Screen intently


MANUFACTURED MINDS:

The Invisible Architecture of Algorithmic Control and the Art of Opting Out


They didn't target your child's attention. They targeted the window before your child could defend it.

Internal documents unsealed in 2026 reveal how major platforms segment children by "age of acquisition" — tracking lifetime revenue projections that are three to five times higher for children captured before age ten. Their internal term for these children is not "users."

It is native integrations.

Your child wasn't exposed to the algorithm. Your child was installed by it. Before identity formed. Before the prefrontal cortex could push back. Before you knew there was a window — and that the window was closing.

Screen time limits don't work. The platforms' own suppressed research proves it: by month six, restrictions return usage to within five percent of baseline. The parental controls weren't built to protect your child. They were built to protect the platform from the appearance of not protecting your child.

Manufactured Minds gives you what the platforms spent billions making sure you'd never have:

  • The truth about the "installation window" — and how to close it before the machine opens it
  • Age-adapted protocols for every stage: Foundations (4–9), Awakening (10–13), Sovereignty (14–17)
  • The Cognitive Immune System — the one capacity the algorithm's entire business model depends on your child never developing
  • The Family Freedom Compass — a shared household tool that turns your liberation into theirs
  • The Algorithm Spotter, the Choice Game, the Maker Hour, and the Identity Journal — practices that build minds the feed cannot predict

You started this book reaching for your phone. You will finish it reaching for your child's hand.

The platforms called your children native integrations.

This book turns them into native immunities.

K. R. Strand — Researcher, rebel, and survivor of the attention economy.


Your thoughts aren't yours anymore. They're predicted, shaped, and sold — every scroll, pause, and hesitation harvested to keep you hooked, divided, and compliant. Platforms don't recommend content. They engineer your reality. And they're terrified you'll notice. Manufactured Minds is the book that makes you notice — then hands you the escape keys.


THIS IS NOT ANOTHER BOOK ABOUT SCREEN TIME. Every chapter answers the question the previous one planted. Every exercise compounds. By the final page, you won't have merely read about opting out — you'll have performed your own escape.



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Wednesday, May 13, 2026

The Ten Levels - From Having to Being

 People walking up a golden stair case into the clouds



What if the world no longer revolved around money, power, and fear? The Ten Levels – From Having to Being is a visionary novel that explores a radical new model for society — one based on responsibility, empathy, cooperation, and shared purpose instead of profit and competition. In a world where social status is determined not by wealth but by contribution, people grow through trust, meaningful work, and human connection. Through the lives of Elyas, Mira, Tayo, Ada, and Rafi, readers experience a profound transformation: leaving behind the chaos, inequality, and violence of the old world to build a peaceful civilization guided by ethical principles and collective well-being. This novel is more than fiction. It is a philosophical thought experiment, a social blueprint, and a powerful invitation to rethink our values, our systems, and our future. The Ten Levels – From Having to Being is a deeply moving story about hope, courage, responsibility, and the timeless human search for meaning. Perfect for readers who love thoughtful, inspiring, and transformative novels.






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Tuesday, May 12, 2026

BREAKTHROUGH PRAYERS FOR DIFFICULT BATTLES

   Chains headed us and sparking


Discover the Power that Breaks Every Chain.
Breakthrough Prayers For Difficult Battles is a spirit-filled guide to overcoming life’s toughest challenges through the unstoppable force of prayer. Each page stirs faith, renews strength, and ignites divine breakthroughs where human effort fails. If you’re facing impossible odds, this book will show you how prayer turns every battle into victory. 

Monday, May 11, 2026

Assiniboine Book of Colors

   TeePee against a color sky



By Vicki Bisbee


A language can bloom in a child’s mind the same way a prairie opens under light.

Assiniboine: Book of Colors welcomes readers into a calm, image-rich world where learning colors also becomes a first step into language, land, and cultural memory. Each page pairs an Assiniboine color word with a vivid scene drawn from prairie life: a black horse running free, a blue Montana sky, a brown buffalo calf in the grass, gray cooking stones near a fire pit, green prairie plants, orange sunset light, pink wildflowers, purple twilight, red beadwork, a white winter tipi, and a yellow flower turned toward the sun. The result is a book that feels less like a standard primer and more like a walk through a living landscape, where every color carries its own presence and mood.

That sense of place gives the book its quiet distinction. These are not random objects chosen simply to teach vocabulary. The colors are rooted in plains, weather, animals, traditional materials, and images tied to Assiniboine life. Even the page for gray reaches beyond simple identification by referencing the meaning of Assiniboine as “cooks using stones,” allowing the book to gently suggest history and identity alongside early learning.

That deeper connection becomes even more meaningful through the background of its creator. Vicki Bisbee is an enrolled member of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes in northeastern Montana, where she has lived for more than fifty years. After a career as a school counselor, she received an Assiniboine dictionary and chose to create colorful language materials for all ages. That purpose can be felt throughout the manuscript. The book carries the warmth of something made not only to teach, but to keep language visible, welcoming, and alive for new generations. Her note that there are variations in the Assiniboine language, and that there is no right or wrong way to speak, adds another layer of generosity to the project: this is a book that invites learning rather than policing it.

For young readers, families, and educators looking for something beyond the usual alphabet-and-colors shelf, Assiniboine: Book of Colors offers a different kind of introduction—one where language is inseparable from land, and where a child’s first encounter with color words can also become an early encounter with cultural belonging.

Sometimes the simplest books carry the most lasting roots, because the first words a child learns can also become the first bridge to language, land, and belonging.


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Sunday, May 10, 2026

Spaces of Existence Volume Two Understanding Who We Are - Getting to Who We Want to Be

 Boulder with Lots of images around it.



By Dr. Arnold Thompson


The spaces we inhabit do more than surround us—they quietly teach us who we are becoming.

Spaces of Existence Volume Two: Understanding Who We Are – Getting to Who We Want to Be opens as both map and meditation, inviting readers into a world where earth, memory, faith, suffering, choice, history, and human relationships are not separate subjects but interconnected “spaces” pressing in on the soul. Dr. Arnold Thompson frames existence as a series of influences moving from the outside in—what he calls a kind of “gravity”—asking how land, environment, culture, knowledge, pain, family, fear, hope, and belief all help form the inner self. The result is not a linear argument so much as an unfolding landscape of thought, where theology meets lived experience and personal memory expands into a much larger meditation on being human.

The atmosphere of the book is reflective, searching, and deeply personal. Thompson moves from the volcanic mountains and salt pond of his St. Kitts childhood to the raising of pigeons, from nature and place to questions of trauma, identity, and the soul’s formation. A boy watching pigeons always return home becomes a doorway into the idea that human beings, too, never fully escape the places that first formed them. A vanished salt pond becomes more than memory; it becomes a meditation on loss, change, and the way early environments remain alive inside us long after the visible landscape has altered. This is a book that treats memory not as nostalgia, but as evidence of how place continues to shape personhood.

What gives the read its distinct pull is its refusal to separate the spiritual from the practical. Earth is not merely scenery here. It is friend and foe, cradle and warning, beauty and danger. The self is not presented as isolated or self-invented, but as something constantly being formed by forces beyond it—natural, historical, relational, moral, and divine. Thompson’s visual “Model of Spaces of the Universe” reinforces this vision, placing the human self in dynamic relationship with God, creation, family, truth, suffering, faith, time, and choice.

That perspective feels especially rooted in the life of its author. Dr. Arnold Thompson’s long background in ministry, theology, teaching, and public speaking gives the book the sense of a lifetime of thought being gathered into one sustained exploration. For readers drawn to spiritually engaged nonfiction, philosophical reflection, and books that ask not just how to live but how to understand the forces already shaping a life, this volume offers an expansive doorway inward.

Before we can become who we want to be, we must learn to recognize the worlds that have already been shaping us.






Saturday, May 9, 2026

Self-Knowledge In a World Of Fictitious Perceptions: BEYOND TOXIC RELATIONSHIPS

 Picture of Lighthouse on Mountain



"The devil's biggest trick is to convince the world he doesn't exist."

There are people in your life talking **
at** you — not to you. Dismantling your ground before you've said a word. Stacking devaluations of your aims, your intentions, your identity — sometimes all three at once. And the most sophisticated part? You're not supposed to notice.

This is not about feeling trapped. This is about 
intended devaluation — and what to do about it.

When you're out of the reach of people with devaluative tendencies — 
magic things happen.

Inside:

➤ NLP: everything you need to know — Built for people dealing with the real aftermath of narcissistic contact. The tools that achieve in minutes what can take years — at a level beyond Practitioner, where the real work begins.

➤ The Game Is On — The narcissist measures success differently. Projective identification, hidden competition, the false selfin motion. Once you understand the internal landscape, the moves become readable — and you stop being a piece on someone else's board.

➤ Classic psychiatry — for the boost of everyday — Kernberg's Object Relations Theory, Transference-Focused Psychotherapy, the DSM-V alternative model decoded for practical use. The internal structure of narcissistic disorder, not just its surface symptoms.

➤ Number one rule of Wall Street — Associate with Performant people. Avoid narcissists. The Wolf of Wall Street understood future faking better than most therapists. A lens you won't forget.

➤ Industrial models in life — OODA loops. Antifragility. C.M.M.I. maturity levels. Because the same frameworks that run high-performance organizations can run a high-performance personal reality. The process is not a product — and that one distinction changes the architecture of everything.

➤ Dissecting underlying social dynamics — The social fabric determines what gets through and what doesn't. Some environments are designed to suppress signal. Knowing which one you're in changes everything.

➤ An impeccable stalker with Maths — Fat tails, stochastic volatility, Fisherian runaway selection as a mirror of narcissistic behavior. How to distinguish a real scenario from a manufactured illusion. Your vision is fundamental.

➤ The 4 Levels of personal development: (beyond) an introduction to Satsang — Perceived Value Is Floating. Rhythms & States. Detached Sense of Identity. Construction as the Logical Solution. A framework built before the noise, for whoever is ready to move past the surface.


"**THE INDIVIDUAL WITH MORE ALTERNATIVES HAS THE CAPACITY TO CONTROL.** That single idea changes everything — and it's the last thing a narcissist wants you to understand. This book is not another guide on toxic relationships. It is a precise toolkit built from classical psychiatry, advanced NLP, industrial management models, and the mathematics of illusion — assembled for one purpose: to give you back your clarity, your agency, and your direction. You'll learn to read the patterns others miss. You'll understand what's actually happening beneath the surface of the relationships that drain you. And you'll find that the way out is not emotional — it's structural. _What the narcissist doesn't want you to see is that the game has rules. And once you know the rules, you stop losing._"









Twenty Last Dates

      Twenty Last Dates In this laugh-out-loud dark comedy about modern romance, one woman over 55 survives twenty truly horrible dates and ...