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These are unflinching, deeply personal stories, from a woman who broke a three generation cycle of teenage motherhood, and a daughter piecing together her father's murder, to a woman tracing her Cape Verdean grandmother's journey to Nantucket, and the editor's own search to find and name a grandmother lost to history. This collection offers proof, in each woman's voice, that happiness is something built, decision by decision, out of whatever life gives you. |
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| Presenting stories of life and love from our Multicultural Women Writers Salon: Ten years after the bombing of Nagasaki, parents make a fateful choice to save their child. After leaving the war in Vietnam, a mother must reunite her children with their family & history. A young woman from the 1800s challenges segregation and forever changes history. And a child from a politically active home in Cabo Verde witnesses the prelude to its now globally celebrated independence. |
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| Cape Verde dates back 2,000 years with stories of ships lost on those coastal African islands around 1458. The first settlers included Portuguese, Genoese, Flemish and Sephardic Jews. However, by 1500, Cabo Verde became a trading center for African slaves, whaling and transatlantic shipping. By the1790s, American whalers from New Bedford. MA, were trading between New England and Cape Verde on the now iconic Packet Ships. |
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With ongoing and emerging economic change situations happening locally, regionally and worldwide, we are providing an array of affordable courses. We teach from industry sectors what to expect in terms of education, workforce preparation and sustainable smart growth. Our journals provide insight on an array of topics from self-development to how U.S.
cities and industries grow. We help you understand how to negotiate for the preservation of natural resources such as farmland, parks, open spaces, unused land, walkable cities and quality of life in our neighborhoods. Learn why we must all understand how to control the negative aspects of urban sprawl and invest in the future of smartgrowth.
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| The term 30-million-word gap was originally coined by Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley in their book: Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children and reprinted in the article “The Early Catastrophe: The 30 Million Word Gap by Age 3.” They found that “the average child in a professional family hears 2,153 words per waking hour, the average child in a working-class family hears 1,251 words per hour, and an average child in a working poor family only 616 words per hour.” Extrapolating, they stated that, “in four years, an average child in a professional family would accumulate experience with almost 45 million words, an average child in a working-class family 26 million words, and an average child in a welfare family 13 million words.” The journals here are designed to increase communication in busy working families by providing easy to digest, relevant topics that can help close the 30 million word gap and increase literacy in the practice of daily conversation. |
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