Gloria Oren

Gloria Oren

Writer, Book Reviewer, Editor, Proofreader.

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Writers and Authors – Jo Linsdell

Interview with Mary Jo Nickum, Author of Mom's Story

I’d like to introduce you to an author who is also in
my critique group (and no, I had not critiqued this
project). Welcome, Mary, glad you could join me here
today. I’ve posted a book review of your book below,
but I thought it would be fun to also have my readers
get to know you a bit [...]

Book Review--Mom's Story: a Child Learns About MS by Mary Jo Nickum

Mary Jo Nickum
Mom’s Story: a Child Learns About MS
Chalet Publishers, 2009, 74 pages, $9.95
ISBN: 978-098408365-7
Fiction

“I found Mom sitting on the floor and I rushed
to her as she started to get up.”

Amy, the youngest child of three children was
worried, scared, and puzzled about what was
happening to her mother. First she had fallen,
then she dropped a plate [...]

Repost: Can America Survive A Nationwide Terrorist Attack?

As the election campaigns [of 2008] strengthen and get closer I would like to bring an important topic to consider. Many find an easy scapegoat in the small country of Israel but could a country as large as the United States fare any better under the attacks of terrorism.

Read the article and then follow the [...]

Repost: Drug your child to stop him from talking?

A Continental Express flight attendant did just that.

First she advised the mother to give her child Benadryl to quiet him down. What! How low are the airlines and their crews going to go? Especially, when the child wasn’t crying, screaming or throwing a tantrum. I am shocked. Since when can a flight attendant order a [...]

Repost: How could they? What were they thinking?

Breaking News: ABC News Australia reports in yesterday’s [6-28-07] news that 21 health care workers in Kazakhstan were involved in the transfusion of HIV tainted blood to over 100 children who later tested positive. So far, 10 children have died.

Hello out there…we are living in 2007; things like this should never happen no matter how [...]

Repost: It happened Today (6-26-07)

I can’t resist sharing an incident that occurred earlier today when someone from the Microsoft Play Group called. Ya gotta love it when you can turn it into a funny.

Rrr Rrr
Me: Hello
Her: Can I speak to Mr. Oren
Me: Which one?
Her: What? There’s more than one?
Me: Three
Her: Ah.. Polygamy
Me: No family.

She actually did get to speak [...]