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Being a nanny for my grandchildren has produced many deja vu moments from my parenting days more than three decades ago. Particularly when my grandson does something – good or bad, precious or obnoxious – I see his dad all over again. I sometimes even go so far as to call him “Nate” instead of “Eli,” getting mixed up on who I’m actually dealing with. My granddaughter doesn’t look as much like her dad as her brother, but she still does things that remind me of when Nate was a toddler learning to express himself. The vast majority of the time...
Read MoreA memorable day
Today, Sept. 11, 2017, was a memorable and an exciting day. First, it marked the 16th anniversary of when the terrorists attacked this country. I woke up remembering exactly how I found out about the attack. My sister called and we were on the phone watching our respective televisions 300 miles apart as the planes flew into the second tower and then the pentagon. We were in shock like the rest of the country. We didn’t want to break our phone connection that morning. Secondly, I spent most of today watching the wind whip through the trees outside my window in Athens, Georgia, listening to...
Read MoreNew Duane Allman book a refreshing perspective
A while back, I set out on a weekend trip with a friend for an assignment by Lake Oconee Living Magazine. Our mission was to travel Georgia’s Antebellum Trail from Athens to Macon and find interesting things to do or see that were not included in the typical brochures. We chose to have our criteria be the degree of Southern hospitality we could find in these off-the-grid places. We divided up the towns we were to travel through – Athens, Watkinsville, Madison, Eatonton, Milledgeville, Gray, Macon – and each researched ahead of time to figure out what we could find. Since we only had a...
Read MoreResponse to Concern About Werner Erhard
I recently received an e-mail from a guy in California who had just completed the Landmark Forum and Advanced Course. He had read a book published in 1992 lambasting Werner Erhard, the founder of the technology that is the basis of the current Forum and other work. However, Werner has been out of the country since 1991 and has no connection to the company formed after he left, Landmark Education Corp. The guy sending the e-mail was concerned about corruption at the head of the company that sponsored the programs that he participated in and by his own words had received great value from. He...
Read MoreDiscovering a Park Ranger’s Passion
Hardly anything is more inspirational than coming across someone who is clearly passionate about something and excited about sharing that passion with others. This is what I found on the way to somewhere else a couple of weekends ago. I was on a road trip with a friend from Gordo and a friend of hers who had flown in from Buffalo, N.Y., with a specific mission. Our first item of business after we picked up the Buffalo visitor at the Birmingham airport was to go through Macon, GA. She wanted to spend some time with an ill brother-in-law who had just recently been hospitalized. From Macon, we...
Read MoreTransformation: The Life and Legacy of Werner Erhard
This documentary chronicles the life of Werner Erhard (creator of the est Training) and the impact of his ideas. Emmy award-winning director and producer Robyn Symon of Robyn Symon Productions directed and produced Transformation: The Life and Legacy of Werner Erhard. The documentary gives the viewer a glimpse of who Werner Erhard really is, the revolutionary nature of his ideas and the difference they have made throughout the world. It highlights his enormous contributions to the quality of people’s lives, people’s relationships, the business world, and society itself....
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Jane Self, PhD, was assistant features editor for the Macon Telegraph and features editor for The Tuscaloosa News. She received her master's degree in secondary education from Louisiana State University in New Orleans and her PhD in education administration from the University of Alabama. 
Jane Self was features editor at The Tuscaloosa News when the Fallen Warriors series began. Although she left the paper, she continued to write these profiles on a freelance basis for The News until the series was stopped in May 2009. Jane has since updated and published them as an E-book. 
In 1991 "60 Minutes" aired a story that attempted to destroy the life and work of EST founder Werner Erhard. Award-winning journalist Jane Self suspected there was more to these allegations than being reported. She discovered an amazing plot of espionage, conspiracy, and sabotage.