Stress Recess is a selection of reflections from A to Z on everyday stress and how to deal simply and creatively with stress. Filled with anecdotes and real life examples, these pieces first appeared as a special column in the Elk River Star News. Topics begin with A ("Alter-Avoid-Accept") and continue through the letter Z ("Zeal...Do something with it!") Each letter of the alphabet introduces and explores various causes of stress and how we can deal effectively with stress on a daily basis.

Stress Recess: The ABC's

Erickson, Richard DeForest

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In 1930, Wesleyan University cancelled its football season. Health officials closed schools in Topeka, Kansas, and banned public meetings in Los Angeles, California. Why? Because of the threat and fear of polio. Through A Looking Glass is a powerful and moving story of Doris Nelson and her spirit that would not, could not, be contained...even though her body was paralyzed from the neck down from polio and imprisoned in an Iron Lung for thirty seven years. Doris contracted polio in 1946 during a state-wide polio epidemic, in the prime of her life and at the height of her dreams. Doris' incredible journal of courage and inspiration will touch you deeply. This is her story, her struggle and her small victories living with a life-threatening disease. This is the original manuscript as Doris typed it herself one letter, one word, one sentence at a time using a typing rod held in her mouth.

Through A Looking glass

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Doris Nelson

Diseases & Physical Ailments

While Hollywood has captured the reality of D-Day, it has not captured the hearts, the tears, the pain of leaders like "Ace" Parker and his men. This is the remarkable story of Company A and the 5th Ranger Battalion and what happened on D-Day and the days that followed. "Ace" Parker and his men were credited with moving further inland than any other group on D-Day. "Ace" was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and inducted into the Ranger Hall of Fame.

Reflections of Courage on D-Day & the Days That Followed

Moen, Marcia

Heinen, Margo

Parker, Ace

Throughout the course of the Second World War in the Pacific, one hundred times as many U.S. servicemen were disabled by disease rather than as a result of hostile action with the Japanese. One of the deadliest diseases encountered was malaria--a vector borne disease that even today kills as many as 3 million people worldwide every year. It is the war against malaria, along with the impact it had on military operations and personnel, that provides the backdrop for the story of Bob Michel and his time with the "Skeeter Beaters"--a small unit of U.S. Navy entomologists, doctors, and Pharmacist Mates whose efforts directly impacted the outcome of the war in the Pacific. 
 This is the war in the South Pacific as it really happened--the day-to-day struggles with disease, twelve-inch poisonous centipedes, poisonous snakes, starvation and the unrelenting Japanese forces. 
 With a renewed interest in the Second World War and the 60th Anniversary of the Guadalcanal campaign, "Skeeter Beaters" provides a unique look at a small piece of our history heretofore never detailed. After experiencing the Pacific War of Bob Michel and the Skeeter Beaters, one may likely say, "I never knew that before?."

Skeeter Beaters: Memories of the South Pacific, 1941-1945

Biographies & Memoirs

Cline, Dennis

Leaders & Notable People

Reflections from the Heart is a book of insightful, reflective poems that challenges and encourages you to grow in your Christian faith. Many of these simple, yet poignant poems were written in the middle of the night and reflect the day-to-day struggles and joys of those who walk by faith. May this ?poetry of the soul? reach into the dark and quiet recesses of your own life to give new meaning and expression to your walk and relationship with God.     These timely poems cover the following topics: God's presence, peace, covenant, forgiveness, guidance, loneliness, Christmas, Easter, sweet memories and bereavement.

Reflections from the Heart

Literature & Fiction

LeFebvre, Ellen Marie

Poetry

At the turn of the century and before the bridge, a young love spanned the Mississippi River, a love recorded in letters found in an attic nearly 100 years later. The letters, from Anna Delia Fournier of Otsego to Laurence Albee Dare of Elk River, tell the fascinating story of life in the Elk River-Otsego area before there was a bridge, of the old-fashioned and touching romance between the young woman of Acadian French-Canadian Catholic antecedents and the young man descended from Protestant Pilgrims. 
"Oh, I wish I had two hearts so you could have one and the rest of humanity could share the other. But, as it is, you can't have it all!" (Letter from Anna to Laurence, January 1904) 
"You were very brave not to get scared of those wolves or the dark ever. You must think an awful lot of me to stand all that just to come to see an insignificant little rustic French maid." (Letter from Anna to Laurence, November 1904)

Anna: Letters from the Attic

Dare, Sally Anne

History

Shell Song is a poignant and poetic story of the search for one_s purpose amid all the struggles life sends along the way, including the onset of mental illness and its invasion into the life of someone you love. 
Have you lost sight of your dreams? 
Have you ever felt that your world was closing in around you? 
Perhaps you’ve wondered about the fine line that exists between sanity and insanity especially when you’re trying to juggle the responsibilities and expectations of marriage, parenthood and a career. Lydia Schettling struggled with these same issues. This is the semi-biographical story based on the real life of Lydia, an immigrant from Germany shortly before WWI, who was touched by schizophrenia and hospitalized in an insane asylum during an era of abuse and neglect. Almost half of all Americans will suffer from a mental illness at some point in their lives. About 40 million adult Americans age 18 and over suffer from a mental health disorder; yet, a deep stigma is still attached to the subject of mental illness. Whether you know someone with mental illness or not, reading this book will change you. Through Lydia’s shell voices you will learn that a person afflicted with a mental illness is still a person who needs your love, support, courage and patience.

Shell Song: Voices Deep Within--Stirrings of a Scattered Soul

Whitehead, Ellen Schettling

Mental Health

"Don’t forget the way they will have me die! Don’t forget that we tried to stand up to them until the last moment! Don’t forget what they are doing to us here! Don’t forget! Swear to me that you will tell the world!" Golda Lipkies’s words shouted to Irene before Golda’s execution at Auschwitz. 
This is the true story of Irene (Rena Hass), a Jewish teenager involved in the 1941-1943 resistance movement and uprising of the Bialystok Ghetto, which was second in historical significance only to the uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto. Irene is one of the very few survivors of the 60,000 massacred Bialystok Jews. She survived the horrors of three concentration camps: Blizyn, Majdanek and Auschwitz. Irene’s father, a virtuoso violinist, was forced to perform before his own execution with the orchestra at the extermination camp of Majdanek in Poland. Her mother was a schoolteacher who suffered with Irene the horrors of the concentration camps until she died just before the end of the war at the Bergen-Belsen camp in Germany. 
Revisiting the Shadows was written so that we will not forget. The atrocity of killing three and a half million Jews during the Holocaust from Poland alone (almost ten per cent of the country’s population)—similar to murdering 25 million Americans today—reminds us that some are still seeking ethnic cleansing, or genocide, in present-day forms of the Final Solution. 
"Germans are different people now—I have German friends who carry the guilt of the war on their shoulders—the Germans helped us. No people, no nation has only bad people." Ms. Shapiro as quoted by Laurie Sullivan in the Scarsdale Inquirer

Revisiting the Shadows: Memoirs from War-Torn Poland to the Statue of Liberty

Shapiro, Irene

Journey back in time to life on the farm during the Depression! The going price for a good milk cow was $2.50. Laundry soap, and most everything else, was made on the farm. Model T's were converted into tractors. Clothes were washed at night when the wind was blowing enough to power the 32-volt windcharger for the electric washing machine. Join Les Anderson as he takes you back in time in this charming and humorous look at the hardships and joys of life on the farm during the Depression in rural Minnesota, then on to life working at the newspaper in the big city. It not only recalls a simpler time, but allows us to reconnect with our own past so that we, too, can cherish that which is most important and meaningful about life.

Memoirs of a Country Boy/Newspaper Man

Anderson, Leslie O.

Memoirs

Not all Germans acquiesced to the power and terror of Hitler and the Third Reich. Not all Protestants were, as Hitler once remarked, "insignificant little people, submissive as dogs, and they sweat with embarrassment when you talk to them." A few stood up because they believed their faith—and their very lives—demanded it. Gisela Dewees was the teenage daughter of Pastor Wilhelm Harnisch, an active member with those who opposed Hitler’s state church. 
This is the story, told by Gisela, as she matured into womanhood and struggled with her family to do what was right rather than what was safe. This is the story of a family who knew what it was in the 1930s and 1940s to be Out of Step in Germany.

Out Of Step: My Young Life As A Resister In Nazi Germany

Dewees, Gisela

Historical

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