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In Saving Our Lives: Volume Two-Essays to Release the Writer in YOU, Hoffman offers stories, observations, opinions and rants for your entertainment and inspiration. Volume Two includes thirty-one new essays, hundreds of writing prompts and lots of optimism to help you face both life and the blank page with humor and confidence.

For most of her life, D. Margaret Hoffman taught other people to write. By challenging herself to write an essay a week for a year, she learned first-hand that life is always there to hand us something more to say. Saving Our Lives: Essays to Inspire the Writer in YOU was born of this challenge. Here Hoffman spills her life stories AND her writing secrets. It is a collection that unveils her strengths--observing life's moments, reliving them in words and motivating others to do the same. If you've always wanted to write, this is the book that will inspire you to DO it. If you're looking for a book of essays that you can enjoy reading just because, that's here, too. Chances are good that you will find yourself somewhere, somehow in these pages and you will be glad you came. Hoffman's essays will encourage you to pay attention to the life you live, to admire the details, to find the fun. With humor and heart, they'll convince you that your life, too, is worth saving--one story at a time.

This workbook is a companion to Saving Our Lives: Volume One-Essays to Inspire the Writer in YOU. Use it in a class, a writing group or on your own. Improve your skills. Build your confidence. Save your life stories.

This workbook is a companion to Saving Our Lives: Volume Two--Essays to Release the Writer in YOU. Use it in a class, a writing group or on your own. Improve your skills. Build your confidence. Save your life stories.

For two years until his untimely death in 1718, the notorious pirate Blackbeard wreaked havoc on Atlantic coastal shipping. This narrative, based on a true story, tells a tale of political intrigue, villainy and romance.

Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of Jacob Ziegler who was born 17 December 1804 in Germany. He was the second child and oldest son of Johan J. Ziegler and Ann Maria Gross. Jacob married Louisa Gebhardt 24 June 1829 in Germany. They immigrated to America with eight children and landed in Castle Garden, New York 26 July 1852. In America, Jacob and his family first lived in Brown Co., Ohio. Later, they migrated to Illinois. Descendants lived in Ohio, Illinois, Missouri and elsewhere.