In Emmy Award-winning writer and producer Jessi Klein's second collection, she hilariously explodes the cultural myths and impossible expectations around motherhood and explores the humiliations, poignancies, and possibilities of midlife. Klein explores this stage of life in all its cruel ironies, joyous moments, and bittersweetness. The best-selling author and Emmy Award-winning writer and producer hilariously destroys the cultural myths and impossible...

For nearly two decades, hundreds of thousands of ardent followers have read Kerry Patterson's New York Times bestselling books and monthly column 'Kerrying On'. Forty of readers' favorite stories from Kerry's personal experiences that touch on life, business, and, well, everything in between, have now been placed into this highly touted, easily toted, gluten-free book. Read one story at a time, four pages at a time. -- back cover.

Presents an American family with love, perception, and irreverence.

"Life lessons from ... Today show personality Al Roker and his wife, globetrotting ABC news journalist Deborah Roberts. Al Roker and Deborah Roberts have sixteen Emmy Awards between them. They have covered everything from the Olympics and the Gulf War to natural disasters and the AIDS crisis in Africa. Now these two married journalists and parents have collaborated on the most personal and important "story" of their lives. Been There, Done That is...

A collection of 101 stories for parents about becoming an empty nester - the newfound freedom, missing the kids, living through the kids' visits home, finding new uses for old rooms. Also contains stories from kids who have flown the nest and stories from the siblings left behind.

"A feminist exploration of single motherhood and a passionate call to reclaim the power of mothering. Nearly a quarter of UK families with dependent children are single-parent families, and around 90% of single parents are women. Yet the single mom is still cast as victim or welfare queen, sexually irresponsible or too independent for her own (or her children's) good. In Doing It All, journalist and single mother Ruby Russell tells a different story,...

The is mainly the story of the Miss Damon's New England grandmother, Grandma Griswold, who fought the twentieth century and all its innovations single-handed--and won. A disciple of Thoreau, she believed in plain living and high thinking, exalting the soul by mortifying the flesh. While raising the two little girls orphaned by her daughter's death, she became the focus of an unusual New England country childhood. She dominates the landscape of home,...