... come to combine the heavenly magic of watermelon with the mundane business of writing down a belief system as a credo? Hey, that's what I do! I'm ... ...ings that will be key to their mental and physical growth, including healthful foods, plenty of exercise, and the thing that I'm most enthusiastic... ...ck to its job. 53 Toward a More Watermelony World Watermelon was a comfort food for me years before I tasted home-baked chocolate-chip cookies... ...elf-Esteem: How to Discover and Fulfill Your Life Dreams. Years of thinking and writing about self­ esteem prompted Wally to offer advice on how to ...

...have culminated in the opening of The Uncle Noname Cookie Company and the writing of this book. During the years, I have accumulated enough lemons t... ...t. A fifteen-year love affair between me and the promotion of my favorite food had come to an end. It took me a long time to accept the new shape of... ...ion dinners and social events were called. Actually, fish wasn't the only food available. There would be plenty of fried chicken, potato salad, coll... ... potato pie, which was all washed down with red soda water. It was a soul food feast, which everyone was ready and able to partake of because Friday... ...rk frying up fish and chicken, letting the satisfying aroma of these rich foods waft through the community, it was the signal to run to the Friday n... ...tant as my religious education was the more for­ mal education of reading, writing, and arithmetic. Many of the black parents in the South did not ha... ...t know if I was more excited about the train trip or the shoe box full of food Ruby had prepared for me. In those days, blacks traveling on public c... ... and I talk a lot about our relationship these days. We even discussed my writing about him in this book. We have pro­ cessed all the pains of our hi... ... Christine and I practiced is called "Ninety I Ninety": ninety minutes of writing how you feel followed by a ninety-minute di­ alogue. During a. Marr...

...e power of love really is. My friend Abdul Aziz Said introduced me to a writing by Ameen Rihani, a mentor of Kahlil Gib~ ran, that speaks of uncon... ...yne Dyer, noted author and psychol, ogist, says, "I am not a writer, I am writing. I am the words. " You become what you do by loving what you do a... ...ife. The other person is his or her own author. Besides, you are too busy writing the script for your own life. Together the two of you are co' aut... ...event us from expressing what we truly are: packages of love. There is a writing by Emmet Fox, a respected author and metaphysical minister, that s... ...ent Wrigley had-a mind that uses imagination. It's hard to think of baby food without conjur, ing up the image of the Gerber Baby. Like many produ... ...ur, ing up the image of the Gerber Baby. Like many products, Gerber baby food came into existence from a need created within the family that start... ...f 1928 they were ready to go to market with a line of five strained baby foods. Dan Gerber gave us a glimpse of the way his THE POWER IN IMAGINAT... ...during my first years in business.) The Gerbers also were the first baby food producers to advertise on TV. There's an old axiom: "Find a need and ... ...by letting their imagina' tion run wild with ideas on how to market baby food. And they created an industry in the process. Wasn't that a powerful ...

...store I can enjoy selling cookies and reading aloud. Cookies and reading: food for the tummy, food for thought, and feel-good food for the soul. Wh... ...he funny thing about this secret ingredient, and all the ingredients I am writing about, is that they are always available to you. Muster up a posit...