If you have loved ones who are getting older, please make sure they have their regular doctors checkups, it could save their lives. Remember that things happen for a reason, and we don't always know what that reason is.

This book is for anyone experiencing grief especially someone who has lost a child. The manner in which your child died may be the only difference you and I share. The grief we now feel after the death of our dear cherished children puts us in a very distinct group of people. Parents are not supposed to bury their children. This isn't normal nor is it the cycle of life. I never knew it was humanly possible to feel so much pain and sadness and yet have the human body still survive.

Death is a part of life, but for a mother who has suffered the death of a child, life can suddenly become unbearable. She finds herself completely shattered-knocked to her knees and unable to get up. Her pain is horrible, beyond anything she has ever felt or experienced before. In "Mothers with Broken Hearts, " author Monica Shipley tells the heartrending story of the suicide of her son, Jeffrey, and the unexpected miracle that occurs as he is dying.

She shares the emotional free fall that his family experienced as he lay motionless for five days following his suicide attempt. She recounts the story of her life as she lives with the shadow of Jeffrey's drug addiction. She talks honestly about his suicide, God's miracle, and what she has done since his death to help hundred of mothers who have also lost a child.

By sharing her story and reaching out to mothers experiencing the greatest loss imaginable, Shipley hopes to bring some measure of comfort to each of them.

In Love

By Gary Littman

(Back Cover)

In the 1960's a rock group called The Youngbloods produced a song titled "Get Together"-the content of this book is a reflection of a lyric within that song-the words are: "We are but a moments sunlight fading in the grass."

No words can better describe the lives of two people falling in love and going through life's journey experiencing both good times and tragedies. This book is an amazing story of true and enduring love. Life is like a book with a beginning, middle, and ending, and this story has all of those elements.

For those people who are in love or are about to fall in love, this book is a way to find out what it means to be truly In Love. It is a view into the minds of two people who, through their "baby boomer" time line, build family, careers, friendships, and battle unforeseen events that change and rock their world. It is a way to show how love, devotion, and caring can make life worth living even through the roughest times.

For those who have already read this book, the reviews have been ones of emotion, self-reflection, and revelation.

Comments have been:

A must read for the Baby Boomer Generation.

Fantastic.

An accurate time line covering forty years,

I couldn't stop crying.

My life is similar to yours.

I didn't know love could be so wonderful.

How did you get through life with all the bombs going off around you?

Although this book discusses events from the 1960's through the present, the story told crosses all generations, past, present, and future. The theme of love is timeless and the people in the book can be you, relatives, or neighbors.

'Every time I speak to someone and hear about their experiences, it leaves me with a sense of running's incredible power to help people overcome pretty much anything.' Each day, millions of people around the world put on their trainers and try to deal with their personal demons and life challenges by going for a run. And, increasingly, they do it knowing that they are not alone: a growing and often virtual community is right there running alongside them. We are all, in some sense, running for our lives. Rachel Ann Cullen's first book, Running for My Life, described her own marathon journey through depression, bipolar disorder and body dysmorphia, and her revelatory discovery that running could transform her physical and mental wellbeing. After hearing from people who had read about her experiences, Rachel wanted to tell some stories of other runners from all around the world - ordinary people living with mental health struggles, grief, cancer and other unavoidable life events who have relied on running to get them through their worst days and to keep going. Running for Our Lives shares moving accounts of hope and resilience; it demonstrates the power of running to help us all overcome adversity, and is a lesson for us all in learning not only how to survive life's challenges, but to thrive.