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A Bakers-Dozen List of My Favorite Nonfiction Books of All Time (And why I consider them life-changing.)

February 22, 2019

My favorite nonfiction books: Image of a stack of books.

Do you struggle with relationships, money matters, aging parents, weight, your writing, curly hair? If so, have I got some nonfiction books for you! To point you in the right direction, here’s a list of my favorite nonfiction books on a variety of subjects. You need more than a list though. You also need the WHY […]

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Filed Under: Life, Whatever Strikes My Fancy Tagged: Bible, curly hair, great nonfiction books, great self-help books, intermittent fasting, life planning, low carb-high fat, mother wound

10 Tips for Living a Whole-Hearted Life (As taught by Brene Brown when she was my co-pilot)

January 25, 2019

whole-hearted: image of a painted heart in a frame

At the end of last year as I drove over the river and through the woods to visit my grown daughter,  Brene Brown taught me how to live a whole-hearted life.  Because my friend Karen Haring—founder and executive director of Libera, Inc.—recommended more than once that I listen to Brown’s 6-cd audio recording of her […]

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Filed Under: Emotional Health, Faith Tagged: aging parents, Brene Brown, creativity, dodgeball, faith, gratitude, guilt, joy, mother wound, play, power of vulnerability, rest, rughooking, shame, whole-hearted life

Daughter Dearest (aka, Rest in Peace, Janet Joy)

September 28, 2018

Mother Daughter: Image of my mother and me sitting on her sofa.

One day during my lunch hour in downtown Cincinnati—I lived and worked there in the 80’s—as I walked toward Fountain Square, two gals came at me, arm in arm. The younger woman’s grin was the spitting image of her mom’s. When I stepped in front of them, they stopped walking and talking, their limbs suddenly stiff, their eyes […]

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Filed Under: Aging Parents, Family Tagged: difficult mothers, mother daughter relationship, mother wound, Mother's Day

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