As a follow-up to his best-selling book, “Going Home - A Backpacker’s Journey,” Thomas Ashley Young continues his travels this time from everyday experiences that border on the insane. Ripe with peripheral invisibleness, Tom’s journeys could be your own; that is, if you jump ouside the box that others have crystallized for you. His expanded use of outside-the-writing-rules techniques have earned him raised eyebrows from even his closest friends. Said one, “Tom is a certified nut, but at least he’s screwed onto the right Bolt.”

Dr. Robert H. Schram has been employed by BARC Developmental Services since 1977 as its Executive Director. BARC Developmental Services is a large community nonprofit organization serving people with intellectual disabilities and Autism. He has advanced degrees in Political Science, Counseling Psychology, and a Doctorate in Public Administration. He received recognition as a Fellow by the American Association on Mental Retardation for meritorious contributions to the field. He was nominated for the Grenzebach Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation. He is trained in Jewish Shamanism, Spiritual Direction, and Himalayan Healing Bowls. He is President and Founder of the Rehaschra School of Yoga and Meditation. His three other published books are: Maximize Life by Living for Peace, Harmony, and Joy! Oh My God it is all the Same! Life is but a Dream!

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Muttered Musings is a fragmented autobiography. The author has led a full, interesting life with experiences, feelings, opinions, mistakes, and mix-ups that will resonate with everyone. The readers will ultimately be entertained, as well as shocked, saddened, amused, and at times will find themselves laughing out loud!

Ayun Halliday may not make for the most sensible travel companion, but she is certainly one of the most outrageous, with a knack for inserting herself (and her unwitting cohorts) into bizarre situations around the globe. Curator of kitsch and unabashed aficionada of pop culture, Halliday offers bemused, self-deprecating narration of events from guerilla theater in Romania to drug-induced Apocalypse Now reenactments in Vietnam to a perhaps even more surreal collagen-implant demonstration at a Paris fashion show emceed by Lauren Bacall. On layover in Amsterdam, Halliday finds unlikely trouble in the red-light district—eliciting the ire of a tiny, violent madam, and is forced to explain tampons to luggage-searching soldiers in Kashmir: "They're for ladies. Bleeding ladies." A self-admittedly bumbling tourist, Halliday shares—with razor-sharp wit and to hilarious effect—the travel stories most are too self-conscious to tell. This second edition includes an updated foreword.