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

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Reading with your child is one of the most important things you can do with your child.  The Reading Mother Strickland Gillilan  I had a Mother who read to me Sagas of pirates who scoured the sea, Cutlasses clinched in Read more…


Strategies for teaching your child to use good judgment. We all know that children must learn to use good judgment to be successful. But how do we teach children to do this? Research shows that treating your child kindly from birth Read more…


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Five keys to a healthy marriage. Getting married is romantic. But how can you keep a marriage healthy for life? In 2015, researchers interviewed 700 people married for 40,000 years collectively. Some divorced couples were interviewed also. Here are the Read more…


Help a child cope with a traumatic event. Children certainly experience events on their own level just as acutely as adults do. Because they still lack the coping mechanisms and perspective that only life experience brings, an event that may Read more…


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Children who read become leaders! Children who read have a definite advantage as adults, especially in today’s business world.  They become leaders. Readers turn into leaders for five reasons. Better thinkers A reader acquires knowledge. Knowledge enables you to keep Read more…


There is a time to stay out of harm’s way, and a time to “FEAR”– face everything and rise! My definition of fear is “face everything and rise”. Until I was almost four years old, I heard loud violent arguing Read more…


Encouraging you to feel better soon on near a river.

A few things that make me feel better I am feeling ill. I feel rotten today.  I have felt rotten for the past few weeks. We have a vehicle that unfortunately requires special tires.  And our tires wore out during Read more…


Encouraging you to understand why patience is important on near a river.

Patience is one attribute of a successful person. Successful people have something in common–patience. We are still waiting for tires we ordered a few weeks ago.  This situation has allowed me  to practice self-control. I continually remind myself that I Read more…


Encouraging you to find a healthy environment on near a river.

How to  calm anxiety by calming your environment. Recently I had a day of depression and anxiety.  I blamed my depression and anxiety on loss of control caused by deaths of two people I love and on being stuck in Read more…


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Three healthy thinking strategies you can use to control negative thoughts and anxiety.  Negative thoughts trigger anxiety.   To prevent this from happening, practice healthy thinking. Here are three ways to practice healthy thinking. Recover from downer thoughts.  Figure out which 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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