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When a storm is coming, all other birds seek shelter. The eagle alone avoids the storm by flying above it. So, in the storms of life may your heart be like an eagle’s and soar above.” – Author Unknown

Nightmares!

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!) May 1, 2024

What goes around comes around.  Something I did as a child has now come back to haunt me in nightmares. When I was a child, my older brother and I walked to school together. On our way home, we used Read more…

What Is Fear?

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), Overcome Anxiety May 1, 2024

Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”. I learned many years ago that he was right. There is no fear like the nighttime fears of a child, and mine were no exception to this Read more…

Carry Your Own Water

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), Fix Your Finances December 27, 2023

When I was a child, I learned to carry my own water and knew the value of every drop. Even though I grew up in a very poor family. As a three-year-old, I had taught myself to read.  Older people Read more…

Something Scary…

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), How Can I Change the World?, How Can I Improve My Country?, School Plans December 27, 2023
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October is the month for scary things…from ghouls and goblins and witches to bullying… October is the month the US celebrates its “scary” holiday, Halloween.  We dress our children as ghouls, goblins, superheroes, or storybook characters and take them to Read more…

Don’t Be Shy!

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), How Can I Be Happy? December 27, 2023
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Are you shy about expressing your feelings in public sometimes? Today I simply had to express how I really felt… Sometimes my right foot hurts really badly. On Sunday of this week, while waiting for my husband to return home, Read more…

Rainy Days

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), How Can I Be Happy? May 1, 2024

Most people dislike rainy days but I love them.  Today is a rainy day here, but the weather is not dragging me down.  I love rainy days! Why do I love the days that most people do not like? First, Read more…

A Pledge for All

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), How Can I Fix Problems?, How Can I Improve My Country? December 27, 2023
Encouragement to honor this pledge for all Americans on near a river.

A pledge is a promise or vow to commit to an idea or action.  Do you know there is a pledge for all that every American needs to honor? In August of 1892, the American socialist preacher Francis Bellamy wrote Read more…

Celebrate Teacher’s Day!

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), For Parents, How Can I Improve My Country? December 27, 2023

Friday, October 5, is World Teacher’s Day.  What can you do to celebrate this day? Perhaps we all need to polish some apples, one for each of our children’s teachers first thing this morning before we send our kids to Read more…

Her Spirit

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), How Can I Be Happy?, How Can I Fix Problems?, Overcome Anxiety, The Power of Positive Thinking! December 27, 2023
Encouraging you to share in her spirit on near a river.

If only we all could have her spirit, the world would be a much better place… This morning my husband and I walked to get some breakfast.  As we walked past one home, a two-year-old girl came running out. She Read more…

"Each reader's heart is like an eagle's and can soar above the storms in life..." - Near a River's Author, BJ Rae.

Written with uplifting words of encouragement, Near a River is a photographic children's book about two young bald eagles who are eager for their mother to teach them to fly so they may soar over the storms in their lives. Near a River encourages early childhood reading. BJ hopes that every child becomes a strong reader and soars above the storms in life.

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