Lorna Stuber – författare

The contrast between how the West views newcomers versus how immigrants picture themselves is stark. New residents in Canada and the US are often misunderstood, disrespected, or poorly labeled due to inaccurate assumptions and stereotypes held by all parties. What does it take to attend university in a second or third language? What are the common denominators amongst people arriving in the West wanting to pursue "the American dream"? What are the impacts of cultural and social adjustments, academic and professional advancement? How do new Canadians and Americans maneuver through prejudices and discrimination coming from not only those born on western soil but also from other immigrants?

My Silver Lining, volume three of a three-volume memoir, is a window into the hurdles that settlers face and the support they get from those who welcome immigrants to their new chosen homelands. Peer through this window by reading the story of a young man who navigated from Ethiopia and Yemen to the US and Canada to establish his identity and purpose. The story shows how Adel Ben-Harhara succeeded after leaving behind everything he knew and attempted to embrace an unknown way of life on a new continent.

When life is defined and debated through sound bites and social media, who would want to read a story about a boy who traversed multiple cultures, languages, religions, and geographical areas?

To Have Nothing, the first volume of Adel Ben-Harhara''s three-volume memoir, delves into the voyage of a boy who was separated from his mother as a toddler and was essentially orphaned at the age of five when his father died. With his mother''s inability to provide support, the boy was homeless, often left on the streets between the ages of eight and eleven. How did he survive?

The boy was born in Addis Ababa to a poverty-stricken, fifteen-year-old Ethiopian mother and a wealthy fifty-year-old businessman, who was a retired British soldier from the Middle East.

As a child, the boy received extensive religious teachings in Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. As an adolescent Marxist in Ethiopia, he was imprisoned for taking part in a communist party youth movement and barely avoided the death squad''s bullets before moving to his ancestors'' land: Yemen.

This is the story of that boy, an inspiring tale of perseverance and survival.

Managing your personal finances is increasingly complicated and stressful. The cost of living keeps rising, and so do personal debt loads. Financial freedom may seem like it''s out of reach-especially long before the magical retirement age of 65-but it doesn''t have to be.

Lorna Stuber outlines the strategies and tricks she has used for more than 30 years to become debt-free and to make money management a rewarding challenge. She supplements these tips with personal anecdotes and examples, including how to maximize a Las Vegas jackpot win! The first challenge is to change your mindset and think of money management as a competition with yourself-a game of sorts. Then, by creating small goals and working towards them, you can relieve stress while paying down debt and building your savings one drop in the bucket at a time.

This book presents tips for the average person with limited money management knowledge. Readers will learn about paying down debt, being scrupulous with spending, saving for big expenses and retirement, and making the most of investments and tax credits.

Financial freedom requires sacrifice, but with the right approach, the sacrifice can be rewarding.

"Do you remember the time Lorna tried to make ground beef with her car?"

For almost forty years, Lorna Stuber''s high school classmates have teased her mercilessly about the time she crashed her car into a steer, leaving the car with tufts of bovine hair stuck in cracks in the hood. The car has since been known as "Lorna''s Cowfur Mobile".

Filled with relatable yet unique stories of sibling rivalry, community, and coming-of-age lessons, Nut Bags and Num-Nums tells the story of a girl growing up on a Canadian cattle ranch in the 1970s and 1980s. With a mix of humour and poignancy, the author enlightens readers on how to dispatch a gopher, gut a chicken, and clean and cook prairie oysters. The book also pays homage to teachers and to Alberta''s farmers and ranchers.

"I''ve lived in in the jungles of Peru and the suburbs of Tokyo. I''ve been to Easter Island, Australia, Egypt, the Caribbean, and Europe. But regardless of where I travel, no matter where I live, my feet are grounded in Canadian soil under the expansive Alberta sky. I value the rural lifestyle and the people I''ve known since childhood who still shape the person I continue to become."