Brennan Kingsland
I’ve been searching high and low to find a photo that makes me look slim & gorgeous! It’s not going to happen (except in my dreams) so I decided to put this page together anyway!
For years I had the fun of traveling around the nation speaking to groups and training offline marketers and sales personnel.
I found it very rewarding (and lucrative) to build companies from start-up-to-successful across the nation. Life was good and life was exciting!
The FANTASTIC
Don Kingsland!
My husband, Don, is my best friend! So when he had his first heart attack about twenty years ago, I made a major career change and became a Critical Care RN.
After several years of developing my nursing skills, and monitoring Don CONTINUOUSLY, I retired from nursing two years ago.
Watching Don get upset because of the horrible news stories about the deterioration of our schools made me determined to help him in any way I could.
Now, Don has just written and published his third book, entitled “SET OUR TEACHERS FREE! A Plan to Save Public Education”
This is something he has needed to do, as a grandfather and a great-grandfather, for our own youngsters and all the young people across the nation.
Don has been teaching and motivating young people towards success, both in and out of public education, for over fifty years. He’s seen it and done it and doesn’t mince words!
In his new book, “SET OUR TEACHERS FREE! A Plan to Save Public Education”, Don offers a complete plan for revamping public education. This plan, known as THE KINGSLAND PLAN is needed to stop the deterioration and pathetic test results that have made our educational system a joke among developed countries. The USA is ranked 24th! Can you believe it!
This is a book that every parent, teacher and taxpayer must read. In fact, this book is for EVERYONE who wants the USA to achieve educational excellence.
Our Menagerie!
Somewhere along the way, about 20 years ago, we started rescuing abused and abandoned animals. I’m embarrassed to say it, but the state I live in is third in the nation in animal cruelty. Domestic violence thrives here, too!
Anyway, along with our own personal furbabies, we began to have people dropping off injured or unwanted animals. We also brought home many animals that had been hurt (badly) by humans.
We are totally self-supported and so are not required to re-home animals unless we KNOW they will be loved! Most of our babies STAY PERMANENTLY with us now that they have finally found safety, kindness & security. Now each can live out their lives in comfort, knowing they are loved. We have each on specialized RAW diets, complete with daily vitamins, minerals, immune builders & lotsa love. Plus, we maintain a fully-stocked infirmary. The picture just above is of Eeedo-Beedo, a Peke-a-Poo. You can see the tooth protruding from his broken jaw. We lost Eeedo, in February, after eleven years due to what the Vet (and numerous blood tests) said was End-Stage Renal failure. Our publishing company was renamed Tuxedo Press Publications in February, in honor of Eeedo-Beedo, and his older brother, my beloved Peke-a-Poo, Tux, who passed on February 3, 2003, after ten years with me. I still miss them both (and others) everyday, but we stay busy. We are currently at 40 dogs (all ages, sizes and breeds) and 9 cats (all Feline Leukemia positive & from formerly feral communities). We have our Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior and Nursing Home groups. We are firm practitioners of spay and neuter, so we do not contribute to the pet over-population epidemic. Our local Animal Control officer called Shepherd’s Haven “doggy heaven” when he visited for inspections. Until he retired last year, he gave us captured puppies, rather than having to kill them. This gave us time to get them healthy and find loving homes for them, instead of gassing or a lethal injection. Unfortunately, our new Animal Control officer, who had agreed to continue working with us to give puppies a chance for a good life, just waves as he drives by. However, both Don & I feel blessed to have so much love in our lives. I’m especially grateful that I can stay home with my DollBaby husband (and make certain he doesn’t sneak candy bars)and work online. Now I get to spend time with him, our children & grandchildren, our six great-grandchildren and our furbabies. We would like to expand the number of kennels we have, the number of fenced runs & play areas, and the number of animals we can help so our long-term goal is to establish and finance a regional Animal Sanctuary. Well, I hope you enjoyed learning a little about us. We’d enjoy comments from you about how your furbabies have enriched your life (or anything else you’d like to share with us).
Sincerely,
Brennan Kingsland
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Before I Fell Apart!
This picture was taken thirty years ago . . . . . . .
Now-a-days, cameras don’t work as slim!
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Hello Brennan and Don
I really enjoyed browsing through your site. Many of the issues that you raised are extremely important and it is wonderful to see people like you bringing positive changes to our educational system.
I actually found the site after searching for issues related to students and education. My name is Erick Brownstein and I work with the Innovation Team at Advanta, a bank dedicated to small businesses. Given your interests, I thought you might be interested to learn about this month’s $10k winner on Advanta’s ideablob.com, an idea sharing community where entrepreneurs and small business owners share and grow their business ideas. People submit business ideas, community members give and get advice and then each month, the community votes on the best idea to win $10,000 from Advanta. The intention of the site is to provide a supportive place where people can create some momentum to help bring their ideas to reality. There is no up-sell, cross-sell or marketing on the site. The only branding is “Inspired by Advanta.”
Elizabeth Dehart of West Jordan, Utah is July’s $10k winner. Dehart’s venture, Healthy Vending Solutions, seeks to offer children healthy, organic food options by making them available in school vending machines. Her initial goal is for kids to have access to healthy food alternatives in Salt Lake City area schools, and she hopes to expand the healthy vending machine concept to airports and hospitals throughout Utah and beyond. Nearly all of the 8 July finalists were, once again, socially conscious, ‘values driven entrepreneurs.’ Last month, the $10k winner was Jessica Hammock and her Project Epiphany, a plan to bring astronomy to inner city youth.
Although school lunches are often an overlooked aspect of education, research is revealing staggering facts about the high fat content and overall nutritional quality of food provided in schools. We hope this idea about healthy vending machines is a start in the right direction.
We’re trying to get the word about ideablob and encourage people to share their ideas and their advice. We’re already at about 100,000 registered users with thousands of ideas submitted. I hope you can take a minute to check out the site and if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.
Thanks and take good care.
Erick Brownstein
PS. We’ve got some new, specifically designed for bloggers/journalists (really anyone who wants them) ideablob T-Shirts that we’re giving away (which are actually pretty cool and good quality – American Apparel – with the message ‘I talk to strangers’). If you’d like one, please let me know.
Hello,
I’m curious to know if you would be interested in hosting a link to my site because it provides a relevant resource for gaining education degrees. Please contact me at your earliest convenience.
Thank you for your time,
John
Hi Brennan,
I thought you and your readers would find this recent article on public education interesting:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-school12-2008nov12,0,5118646.story
The analysis discussed in the article found that 12 out of the 15 highest performing public schools in California serving children in poverty are charter schools.
Below is a link to the California Charter Schools Association’s web page that I think summarizes the results a bit more clearly:
http://www.myschool.org/Press_Kit_Children_in_Poverty_API/AM/ContentManagerNet/Default.aspx?Section=Press_Kit_Children_in_Poverty_API&Template=/TaggedPage/TaggedPageDisplay.cfm&TPLID=15&ContentID=6679
Please let me know if you’d like to blog about this. I’d be happy to send more information if you need it.
-Lauren