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Your Journey: It's About You Gratitude Journal

by Treniece Campbell

Ladies, when was the last time you loved on you, validated you, and empowered you to be the best version of yourself?

The Gratitude Journal will take you on a thirtyday journey that will allow you to reflect on positive statements and beliefs about yourself. On the course of your journey, you will have activities you can build on each day. It can help with understanding who you are, so you can continue to grow forward with the positive aspects of your life.

Your Journey: It’s About You Gratitude Journal is an activity workbook that is very versatile and can be used as a tool individually, in group settings, and workshops. It’s a gateway to challenge and empower you to become the best version of yourself.

Treniece Campbell is a resident of Woodstock where she enjoys spending time with her family and enjoying life as much as possible. Treniece is a certified health and life coach with a holistic approach to help empower women to become their authentic selves.

At Cana

by Tim Wojcik

A good wine has a “good finish.” For a wedding to run out of wine— well, it would say something about the groom and bride, the caterers, and the whole gathering. Good friends help each other out. Most of us know the basic contour of the “waterto-wine” story set in Cana from John chapter two.

Weddings bring together guests from many backgrounds, ages, and interests—young women and men, grandparents, kids, neighbors, friends, and the wait staff and the head of hospitality. At this wedding there’s also a young rabbi needing to prove to himself that he’s got something special to show his community.

At Cana brings many people together in a new retelling of the story you know—or do you? Transformations abound at Cana.

Tim Wojcik is a Woodstock resident. His background includes media specialist and librarian, corporate administrator, and bookseller. At Cana is available in print and ebook format from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and the publisher via Tom’s website TWojcik.com/Purchase.

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Catfish

by Madelyn Bennett Edwards

It’s the early 1960s and early 1970s in small-town South Louisiana. Susanna Burton, a White girl whose traumatic home life is hidden behind her father’s political power, finds acceptance and forbidden love with an African American family and a young Black man named Rodney Thibault.

Rodney provides the tenderness and warmth Susie has never known in an era when anti-miscegenation is the law of the land. Even after the Supreme Court strikes down such discrimination, the Ku Klux Klan, other White supremacists, and Susie’s parents stand in the way of love. Forced to go their separate ways and live several states apart for years on end, Susie and Rodney continually find their way back together.

At the heart of the novel, giving Susie and Rodney the strength to overcome the harshness of their world and telling Susie stories of his family’s escape from slavery and oppression is Catfish, patriarch of the Black family who accepts Susie more fully than her own blood.

Madelyn Bennett Edwards is a Louisiana native who lives in Canton, Georgia, with her husband, Gene. After years in television journalism, Madelyn focused on creative writing. Catfish was her first published novel, which grew into a trilogy with Lilly and Sissy following.