Bøger af Steve Potter

Welcome to the borderland where the outskirts of New York City overlap with the Long Island suburbs. Meet Tiny the giant, Muscles, Scooter, Potatoes, Babydoll, and Thunder - formerly known as Big Fat Hoss, the Jersey Strangler. In these darkly funny tales, men and women face the consequences of their terrible decisions. People living close to the edge of ruin wander even closer and wind up face-to-face with criminals.When an unemployed, alcoholic carpenter picks up an old acquaintance in a local dive bar, she leads him into a world of trouble he never imagined he'd find. A teenager gets his eighty-two-year-old grandfather high then looks on dumbfounded as the old man becomes a diehard stoner, dealer, and drug mule.Two over-worked young women take an extended smoke break from a job they can't imagine getting any worse. It gets worse, much worse.A small-time mobster who can't keep his mouth shut gets it shut for him once and for all. Absurd, grotesque, raunchy, vulgar, and violent, these stories are also often hilarious and oddly touching.Steve Potter drove a plumbing supply delivery van around New York City and Long Island by day and attended classes at Queens College by night. His stories, which have been published in indie lit mags such as Midnight Mind, Pindeldyboz, Thieves Jargon, and The Raven Chronicles, reflect that dichotomy, inspired as much by the workaday life he's led as they are by the books he's read. He writes about literature at bookfreak.us.

Talking with a Map explores the interplay between how we talk and how we relate. We learn to relate before we learn to talk, and every conversation depends on making sense of our interactions as much as our language. Conversation has the potential to bring us a deeper and clearer perspective, but we are also capable of getting lost or into a mess. Tackling this and offering a means to improve conversational skill for those who depend on it (e.g. teachers, nurses, managers) as well as anyone seeking the courage, compassion, and curiosity to have better conversations and relationships, Talking with a Map presents a series of simple steps for making word maps of discussions as they develop. These maps track the hidden patterns in what we say and how we relate to each other while speaking, making visible the links and gaps in our discussions and helping us to achieve a shared understanding of conversations.

Gets to the heart of therapy by exploring how underlying relational processes work regardless of model, and by presenting innovative techniques for using time, reflection and shared responsibility to maximize effectiveness and improve client outcomes.