MSI Press Blog

Today's shared blog post comes from Franki Bagdade, author of the award-winning book,  I Love My Kids, But I Don't Always Like Them . This week, Franki asks:  Are you Mommying with ADHD? This is for you! For more posts by and about Franki, click  HERE . Book Description: Selected as Independent Authors' Network Book of the Year as the Outstanding Parenting Book and winner of the Literary Titan Gold Award, I Love My Kids, But I Don't Always Like Them, is the ultimate survival guide for parents living through one of the strangest times in history. This " how to guide" will support you even if you are exhausted and burnt out in improving your child(ren)'s behavior. Written by an expert with 20 years of experience in behavioral observation in the classroom, in overnight camp, and more. Franki's storyteller cadence helps the book to read as if it's a casual conversation and pep talk between two parents over coffee. Franki is raw, authentic, and honest a...

    Chris Richards' book,   Nothing So Broken , reached  #182 in Vietnam War biographies, #99 in disability biographies, and #194 in Vietnam War History. Book description:  In the shadow of loss, a path to healing begins. Chris Richards grew up in a small New England mill town, where life was tough and loyalty ran deep. At just 19, his world was shaken when a close friend was left permanently disabled by a devastating accident. At the same time, Chris’s father began to show troubling symptoms linked to his service in the Vietnam War—unseen wounds that would slowly unravel the man he once knew. The weight of watching two people he loved unravel under the strain of trauma and physical decline left deep scars—ones Chris carried silently into adulthood. For years, he buried his grief and fear, never imagining that one day, facing his own crisis, he would turn to their stories for strength. This powerful and moving memoir explores the enduring impact of trauma, ...

  The day after Valentine’s Day is its own kind of holiday — quieter, unadorned, and strangely revealing. It’s the emotional hangover after the glitter has settled. The flowers are still on the table, but they’ve already begun their slow wilt. The chocolates have been picked over. The cards sit open on the counter, their sweetness suddenly louder in the stillness. The day after joy always has a different temperature. It’s not just Valentine’s Day. It’s the day after a long‑awaited trip, the day after a family gathering that briefly made the world feel whole, the day after a celebration where you let yourself forget the hard parts of life. When the music stops, the silence can feel like a drop in altitude. You land back in your real life with a soft thud. There’s something sobering about that return. Sometimes even depressing. Because joy — real joy — lifts us. It suspends the weight we carry. It lets us forget the logistics, the griefs, the responsibilities, the chronic worri...

  For most of recorded history, Christianity has been the world’s largest religious tradition. Islam has been the second. That hierarchy has shaped geopolitics, culture, identity, and even the emotional vocabulary of the modern world. But according to long‑range demographic projections from the Pew Research Center, that era is ending. By 2050, if current trends continue, Muslims will nearly equal Christians in number worldwide . This is not a story about conversion waves or ideological triumph. It’s a story about fertility rates, age structures, and geography — the quiet engines of demographic change. Muslim-majority populations are, on average, younger and have more children. Christian populations, especially in Europe and North America, are older and shrinking. Meanwhile, Christianity’s center of gravity is shifting southward, with sub‑Saharan Africa becoming home to a rapidly growing share of the world’s Christians. Islam, too, is expanding in Africa and maintaining strong grow...