Band-Aids For Peace

About the Book

BAND-AIDS FOR PEACE has something for everyone’s pain. It is not all sad or all bad. It tells about realistic events from the cradle to the grave. There are events that will make you laugh, such as the sassy old lady in “Don’t Mock Me Because I Am Old” and some that will make you cry, such as understanding the reasons in the “Nightmare of Birth Defects Through the Eyes of a Baby.” No one ever thinks of how the baby must feel who is born with birth defects. Every passage will leave you with a lasting impression. Some of the events are true stories of events witnessed by this author that left an impression of how one man can be inhuman to another. BAND-AIDS FOR PEACE has something for everyone’s pain. Many of the events have a poetic swing to them, but every event tells a story. I attempted to give a message with each selection. The selections are in no chronological order. Yet, they span decades in a life of both joy and turmoil. You will find teens who see their parents as old and out of date, babies in pain crying for answers, and even men in prison who seek relief from the guilt they carry inside. You will see the struggle with answers when a loved one passes on and the joy of a couple in love. You will see images captured during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita that devastated the Gulf Coast region and left people homeless and crying for answers. Then you will look into several religious selections for persons involved in the church. BAND-AIDS FOR PEACE attempts to both enlighten the reader and help to stimulate the mind in a search for more answers about oneself.

About the Author

Patricia White Spikes is the mother of two children, a daughter She’atri Denise Pete Little and a son, John Ray Spikes II; and a grandmother of six: Colby, Christian, Aminah, Amir, Jamilah and Christina. She has worked in community programs most of her life as both a volunteer and a coordinator. A graduate of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas with a Bachelor of Science in Biology, she pursued Medical Technology and Pre-Medicine as her major subjects. During her many years in the medical field, she became involved in numerous community activities and was instrumental in helping to develop the Sunny Futures Healthy Start Program in Houston, Texas to fight low infant mortality babies being born in the minority communities at a time when infant mortality and teen pregnancy were both at their highest levels. She has been credited with the development of numerous community organizations and volunteer programs. Throughout her career she has remained active in her community home church.

After many years of community involvement, she started her own company, S&J Literary Works that is designed to develop 501(c)(3) non-profit corporations and work with board development, volunteer utilization in the organizations, and securing grants for community projects. For the last two years, she has chaired the Board of Advisors for the Southeast Branch American Red Cross in Houston, Texas, which led to many hours of being involved in one of the worst natural disasters in American history: Hurricane Katrina. Always a champion for human rights and equality, this author continues through her writings and community involvement to fight man’s inhumanity to man and to promote equal opportunities for everyone. She lives in Houston, Texas.