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

Category Archives: How Can I Improve My Country?

Make  a Difference In Your Country!

These articles explain how anyone can improve life in his or her country.  They include topics from getting involved in politics to helping to end violence.  Their ultimate purpose is to enable readers everywhere to overcome life’s storms as an eagle does.

Bobbie J Rae’s vision is insightful and motivating. Her vision brings you a successful and positive outlook on life.  These articles will help you improve life in your country for children and adults around you.

Written with uplifting words of encouragement, Near a River is a photographic book for children 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 reading for children. BJ hopes that every child becomes a strong reader and overcomes the storms in life.

Enjoy BJ’s encouraging words

on near a river!

BJ’s encouraging eagle

Near a River

common core

reading book for children

is available on

Amazon.com

and Barnesandnoble.com.

Buy BJ’s Near a River 

eagle reading book

for children

you care about today!


You can change the life of one child and improve the world! Do you want to make a difference in the world? Of course you do! Here are two ways you can change a child’s world.  Purchasing things a child Read more…


near a river encouragement for children peace of eagle bj rae bald eagle

Use these strategies to develop the peace of an eagle within yourself! Lone eagles, soaring in the clouds, fly with silent, peaceful poise. While turkeys, in their earth-bound crowds, fill the atmosphere with noise. –Author unknown. People who are like Read more…


Yes, you can change the world.  You can make the world a better place! Look in the mirror. Do you realize you are looking at an awesome and unique person? You are awesome and unique…and you can change the world! Read more…


Encouragement to volunteer and be successful on Near a River.

Volunteer to overcome your issues and succeed!   Do you want to feel satisfied with your life? Do you want to be successful? John Tesh in his book Intelligence for Your Life writes that “God planted in us a conscience Read more…


Enjoy healthy relationships on near a river.

You can enjoy healthy relationships with everyone around you. You can enjoy healthy relationships with everyone around you.  It is not hard to do.  It simply boils down to respect.  Role model respect for everyone around you so others will 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 teach your child by your example on near a river.

Teach your children key principals for success through your example. When I was growing up, my role models—my Sunday School teacher, my grandmother, my neighbor, my teachers in school—set examples for all children around them.  Their examples taught me these Read more…


near a river encouragement teach bj rae eagle

Teach a child well.  Enable him to be successful. My husband has had some successful friends. One friend, Jim, was a manufacturer’s representative. Jim and his wife Lisa had ten children. All ten children were well-mannered.  They did chores and helped each Read more…


near a river encouragement teased child bj rae eagle

Empower a teased child to cope emotionally. As a child, I was teased mercilessly. I was small for my age. I appeared to be several years younger than my actual age. My ears were large. It took me years to Read more…


near a river encouragement no to drugs bj rae eagle

Resiliency comes from love. Both resiliency and love enable a child to say no to drugs. Every child can say be strong enough to say no to drugs. Even though I grew up in a dysfunctional home, I still said no 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.

Follow Nearariver.com

Bloglovin button

Buy Near a River Book   

Buy Now From amazon.comBuy Now at Barnes & Noble

Social Media

Visit Us On FacebookVisit Us On TwitterVisit Us On Linkedin

Near a River CATEGORIES

Donate

Please help BJ raise funds for the charities she supports–cancer research, child abuse, domestic violence, and disaster victims.

RECENT POSTS