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And Not One Bird Stopped Singing: Coping with Transition and Loss in Aging

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Dr. Jones has counseled persons in the grieving process in her profession as a Christian counselor. Her discoveries of grief in her profession as well as her personal experience with three different aspects of loss will be helpful to any reader who is struggling through loss and grief. How Dr. Jones presents each form of grief with her own personal experiences will help the reader apply it to their own loss. Her sense of humor (the loss of a spouse is like, "amputation without anesthesia") helps to lighten a deep and emotional subject to us all. This is a "must read" resource book for anyone who is experiencing grief or who counsels others who are grieving.

Dr. Jones has written a beautifully poetic book that will touch the mind and heart of everyone who has or will grieve. She writes both from her personal journey and also her vast experience as a minister of the soul. Grief brings a powerful sense of being alone and it is at such a time that this book will become a best friend.

This little book may very well aid in adjusting to the loss of a family member, friend or loved one. Try it; it could help.

Age is relevant but not necessarily the only thing to make men act like a fool. Alcohol is the prime evil to bring about their downfall. The greatest loss is not the death of a loved one but the actual deception of someone you thought was true-blue, but was entirely a made-up deception on a whole town. We believed in him and what he had to write, he couldn't speak as he was never trained as a public speaker. But we were led to believe that he did "research" and wallowed in "micro fiche" of old newspapers. False! Finally, the truth wills out when he admits that I don't know him. He really is the office boy (lackey) I thought the first time I met him. Two others had claimed to be the writer, but it was various and sundry who did the actual columns, not just one person. He sure fooled me. He is supposedly someone calling himself. First, he self-published two books of tabloid columns purportedly by him but now he is giving credit to others as follows: Knoxville's Secret History by Jack Neely, Aaron Jay, and Lisa Horstman (Paperback - Nov 1, 1995), and Secret History II: Stories About Knoxville, Tennessee by Jack Neely, Ed Richardson, and Lisa Horstman (Paperback - Nov 20, 1998). Lisa Horstman must be the maiden name of Janet, but who is Ed Richardson. That's a new one on me.

What was supposedly history of old happenings in this town he admits to me is pure fiction based on the book, Sutree. Sordid and scandalous events which never happened except in his imagination. He is no Kipling but "borrowed" Paul Theroux's Secret History book as the title of the tabloid columns since 1995. He has created a sordid and scathing "past" which didn't happen. He has been on a sex craze from times gone by also which didn't happen as he wrote. He even promoted a fictional account of a prominent person who helped to write Harbrace Handbook for English. He is merely the office boy and others do the writing for which he gets credit. When he tries to talk to literary groups, he hems and haws and never says anything substantial as he can't remember what it was he wrote. Now, he has written about gay marriage. He tricked me, as he has tricked the newcomers to this sordid town. It is turning into a drug culture in the downtown area. One of them (actually two counting the wife) are now in prison for marjuiana sales and the properties they managed to pull over the officials as legitimate. People like them have ruined this town. And they have used the services of one Neely who is a pretender. Cas Walker would turn over in his grave if he knew what this person has done to appear as someone from a century ago who existed only in his imagination. The trashy pieces are written by others using his name so as to have some authesity. He has built a career with writings by other people. He inherited a great deal of loss, which was forthcoming for his deception.