One month after her husband-to-be proposed to Dr. Diana Denholm, he was diagnosed with colon cancer. She married him, and for the next 11 years until his death she was his primary caregiver as he suffered through surgery, chemo, and congestive heart failure, followed by a heart transplant, skin cancer, a choking disorder, Parkinson’s, and many more dire conditions—ranging from gout to osteoarthritis—too numerous to name here. Upon hearing this story, is it so wrong to feel sympathy for the wife?
Cooking for one is not something most people want to try to tackle. That’s why there’s a plethora of frozen dinners, right? Sure, we say to ourselves, “This year I will really make the effort to cook special meals for myself and treat my body to the healthy food it deserves.” Somehow, though, the idea seems to fall by the wayside before it even gets started. “It’s too hard to make a meal just for one person,” “I end up wasting so much of what I make,” “Why spend time cooking just for me?,” or “I just don’t know what to make for just me.”
Every once in a while I read a book that motivates me to action. The new one by financial advisor and eldercare expert Harold L. Lustig did just that. In his curiously titled Naked in the Nursing Home: The Woman’s Guide to Paying for Long-Term Care without Going Broke, Lustig introduces a topic to which, admittedly, I hadn’t previously given much thought. But now I definitely will.
Eleanor Roosevelt’s impact on current American culture is easy to underestimate. This book puts her back in her rightful place in her historical era as well as pointing out the initiatives she started that continue to this day. In spite of the power of her words and the strength of the coalitions she assembled, the battles she fought continue to be fought.
How could anyone not want children? If you’ve ever rolled your eyes and chose not to answer that question when you were confronted with it because you didn’t really want to have to face the never ending debate that most certainly will follow, no worries. Sylvia D. Lucas as answered it for you in her latest commentary now available on Kindle: No Children, No Guilt. Sylvia begins Chapter 1 with a simple list of some reasons why some women don’t want children:
The Shaman and the Ironman—it sounds a bit like a pair of superheroes. But when shaman-healer Brant Secunda and six-time world champion triathlete Mark Allen teamed up to write their newest title, Fit Soul-Fit Body: 9 Keys to a Healther, Happier You, they really did create something extraordinary.
It’s Flu season again! That time of year when most of us get a yearly shot at our workplace or local pharmacy. That time of year to invest in extra Clorox wipes, Purell, and any other disinfectant that claims to fight viruses. That time of year to pull out the ole chicken noodle soup recipe from Mom’s recipe box, which you only make at this time of the year anyway.
Joel Friedlander is a well established authority in the self-publishing world and the force behind The BookDesigner website. His old-school self-publishing efforts, before Print On Demand, led to his becoming a provider of customized self-publishing services—a book producer, to use his term. Much of his new book is culled from blog posts of the past years, with an emphasis on the why of self-publishing more than the how.
Craig Machen is a bad boy, or was a bad boy (if you can ever really shake that persona). It’s not entirely his fault, though. Rather, it is a result of a series of unfortunate life circumstances that led him to be self-destructive. Sex, drugs, rock and roll, and strippers. ‘Still Life With Brass Pole’ has it all- in excess. It is a drug and alcohol-induced road trip on which Machen takes the reader in this coming-of-age memoir.
Imagine life is pretty good! Yeah, you’ve got bills to pay and kids to clothe and feed. But overall, it’s pretty good. You’ve got a spouse, a family, a house, a job, a car…outside of the day to day stresses, you can’t complain much.
