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George Erickson is a retired dentist and has been the chairman of the Worthington, MN Airport Commission, a former president of the Nobles County Art Center, a former Vice Pres. of the Minnesota Seaplane Pilots' Association and has served on the New Brighton, Minn. Environmental Quality Comm. George's articles have appeared in many newspapers and general interest and aviation magazines, a few being Motorcycle Tour and Cruiser, The AOPA Pilot, Dental Survey, Mpls/St Paul Magazine, Airways Magazine, Private Pilot, the Minnesota Flyer, Northern Pilot, Cessna Flyer, the Minnesota Journal of Law and Politics, Canadian Flight and Arctic in Colour. In 2000, George was named the Author of the Year by the Minnesota Aviation Hall of Fame. He has spent parts of 38 summers exploring far northern Quebec, Nunavut, the Territories and Alaska in a variety of floatplanes and amphibians from Cubs to Cessna 206s. George's Power Point presentations on bush flying in the far North and in Australia have been featured at many major cities across the US and Canada and at aviation conventions, including the annual EAA AirVenture gathering at Oshkosh - attendance - 700,000! George and his wife of 53 years have two grown sons. He has been an Elder in a large Presbyterian church, the president of the Minnesota Humanists and a director of the American Humanist Assoc. He donates all of his book and CD profits to educational charities.

ROMANCING THE DOG, a humorous memoir, reminds the reader just how much one dog can transform human lives. It will take you on a romp of unique adventures laced with poignant moments. When Chips, a rescue dog, enters the neat routines of a middle aged couple and messes them up in the most delectable ways, the new guardians are led from one challenge to another. A Tibetan Terrier, who always seems to have the upper paw, he sends Marion's and Sam's stress levels off the charts. Readers will smile, laugh and cry as they follow this trio through their journey ofangst and joy

Leonard, Marianne, and Mechronicles forty years of Judy Scott's frequent summers on the Greek island of Hydra with a diverse artistic community and her friendship with singer-songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen and his legendary muse Marianne Ihlen. This memoir, based on Scott’s notebooks and journals, includes incidents in their lives and their relationship to one another—at a point when it was changing forever—that have never been discussed before. As Cohen himself observed of this book when Scott sent the manuscript to him for his approval: "I particularly admire the detail and honesty of the piece." One of the more unique features in this recounting is the emerging acknowledgment the author confronts of her own sexuality, as she writes: "It did not take long for Leonard to recognize that I was more attracted to Marianne than I was to him, though I came to love him too in the end." The book also describes Hydra in the early 1970s in great detail—a unique place filled with astonishing physical beauty and an incomparable atmosphere of serenity and peaceful energy. The island contained a small foreign community of like-minded creative souls, artists, musicians, writers, and their supporters and admirers. As Scott explains, "Hydra in the late '60s and early '70s was at its creative zenith. Like Paris in the '30s, Harlem in the '40s, Greenwich Village in the '50s, San Francisco in the '60s—Hydra in the '70s was the place to be." The memoir, though it centers on Scott's most important, most impactful interactions with Leonard and Marianne, also contains several portraits of other Hydra habitués, all members of the same small ex-pat community, all close friends (and occasional lovers) of Leonard and Marianne, all uniquely interesting in their own right.Leonard, Marianne and Meis a story of a special time, place, and cast of characters—a travelogue of an enchanted island as it was back then and still is to this day, backlit by the glow of Leonard Cohen and his muse, Marianne.

My first professional gig as an improv actor was at SAK Comedy Lab in downtown Orlando, I then moved on to entertain audiences in The Comedy Warehouse at The Walt Disney World Resort. As an award winning Stand up Comic I've produced my one man show "Mr. Nobody" as well as the female comedy showcase "Funny Women" I'm also involved with the interactive business theatre groups Dramatic Solutions, The Wonder Makers, and The Disney Event Group. You can currently catch me as the Host of the web series "inside Disney Parks" on ABC.com and The Disney Parks YouTube channel.

Dr. Rachel A. Winston is a professor, researcher, and analyst who writes and publishes books and articles on various aspects of education. As a scientist, mathematician, and leadership expert, she has been a professor of college counseling, mathematics, and engineering as well as a trusted global college admissions consultant. With more than three decades of experience in higher education, she has taught at major universities in the United States and studied at more than a dozen colleges including: Harvard, UCLA, USC, NYU, and GWU as well as graduate school in China. As a mathematician, she won the Cryptanalyst Award at a National Science Foundation program in Bletchley Park, England. Living in Europe and the Washington, D.C. area as a child and traveling to a hundred countries throughout her life, her broad range of experience has made her one of the leading cross cultural consultants. She trained counselors around the world teaching in the UCLA College Counseling Certificate Program. Starting college at thirteen and winning the National High School Senior of the Year from the American Legion, she has earned numerous undergraduate and graduate degrees. Dr. Winston holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and numerous master's degrees, including her most recent M.S. in Publishing from The George Washington University. In her Southern California community, she served on the Board of Directors of the Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce, Leadership Tomorrow, and the Faculty Association of California Community Colleges, and was also the Education Committee Director of the Costa Mesa Chamber of Commerce. She served the Regional Coordinator for the Mathematical Association of America. Prior to coming to California she worked on Capitol Hill, the White House, and the U.S. Department of Labor. She won the 2012 McFarland Literary Achievement Award and has spoken at over a hundred local and national meetings and conferences. Dr. Winston published her first mathematics book in the 80s and spends her life serving and inspiring students to achieve their college and career goals.