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Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Family & other relationships > Intergenerational relationships
A beautiful coloured fabric and gold foil blocked gift journal for
your mother to capture and share her wonderful memories and
stories. Designed to make it easy for every mother to capture her
life story and aspirations, each journal includes 60 thoughtful
questions to inspire your mum to enjoy telling her story by
describing the past, the present and thinking about the future.
With space for accompanying photos and memorabilia alongside her
handwritten memories these classic, yet contemporary books, are
covered in soft fabric making these tactile editions truly timeless
keepsakes. Finished with gold foil and gold ribbons they make
fabulous gifts for any mother on her birthday, at Christmas, on
Mother's Day or simply to show her you care. The Timeless
Collection is available in 9 titles: Mum, Dad, Grandma, Grandad,
Daughter, Son, Sister, Brother & Friend.
Dear Mother is written as the memories of the author. By recounting
the unusual happenings of his early years we find ourselves
laughing at the behavior of this young man and wonder how did he
live through it? Then strangely enough, readers see themselves in
many similar situations. Dear Mother is completely fact as
outrageous as it may seem. This book will make you laugh out loud
and in the next chapter you will find your eyes watering. Dear
Mother is the type of book that you do not have to think about
while you are reading it. Just sit back and enjoy the author's
style of telling his life story.
SHORTLISTED FOR TWO IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2021 'Something they don't
tell you about getting older is that you fall. Oh, you hear about
it in passing, of course, "She had a fall, poor thing". Falling is
not something you ever think about as a younger woman. You think
about falling in love . . .' At 20 Londoner Ann Ingle fell madly in
love with an Irish fellow she met on holiday in Cornwall. At the
church to arrange their shotgun wedding she discovered that he
hadn't even told her his real name. Sixty-odd years later Ann looks
back on that first glorious fall and in a series of essays
considers what she has learned from the life that followed -
bringing eight children into the world, their father's years of
mental illness and tragic death at 40, being a cash-strapped single
mother in 1980s Dublin, coming into her own in her middle years -
going to college, working and writing, and continuing to evolve and
learn into her ninth decade, even as she accepts the realities of
being 'old'. Candid about everything that matters - love, sex,
heartbreak, money, class, religion, mental health, rearing children
(and letting them go), reading and writing, ageing - Openhearted is
a compelling story about living life in a spirit of curiosity and
delight and with a willingness to look for good in others.
___________________ 'By some distance the most courageous, most
poignant, most life-affirming memoir I've read in the last twenty
years and more' Paul Howard 'Genuinely inspirational. I LOVE ANN
INGLE' Marian Keyes 'What a beautiful openhearted, at times
broken-hearted memoir ... honest, funny, searingly direct, a
wonderful voice ... remarkable' Joe Duffy 'Really beautiful.
Searingly honest, astonishingly frank and very, very funny' Maia
Dunphy
Imagine growing up in small Indiana towns in the 1940s in a very
strict religious family and then realizing at the age of six that
there was something sexually "wrong" with you. You had no name for
it, and you didn't really understand it, but you knew it all the
same. By the time you were seven and eight years old, you heard
adults talk about sexual perversion and teenagers using the terms
"faggot" or "queer" as if they were describing the plague. But you
knew deep inside it was you they were talking about Then skip
forward a few years when you felt compelled to find someone else
like you. You knew you couldn't be the only one, and you didn't
think you could survive on erotic dreams or daydreaming. And so you
began to sexually experiment with older men who called themselves
queer, but you knew it didn't describe you. Then, at age seventeen,
you found yourself in your first small gay bar, where you finally
discovered you weren't the only one like you on this planet But
when your mother discovered you'd been invited to a gay party, she
told you that you would burn in hell if you didn't become
heterosexual. And that was just the beginning. Following My Path is
the true account of the author discovering who he was and all the
things that happened along the way. Some of the things are serious,
and some are funny, but all are interesting and vital to
understanding what many gay people have had to endure. Reading
Following My Path may: * change your mind about whether being gay
is a choice or not; * make you see gay people differently and with
more understanding, particularly those who are older and in the
closet longer; * teach you to love your children unconditionally,
even if there are parts of them you can't understand or accept; *
teach you not to lay guilt trips on your children; and * teach gay
LGBT people not to leave God out of their lives, as we, too, are
made in his image, and he wants us to lead happy and fulfilling
lives. Following My Path is the author's confirmation in his belief
in God and his comfort with being an "outed," gay Christian.
This book outlines events and situations that we all live in
reality and not smile about at the end of the day but instead wake
up the very next day trying to find a solution to yesterday which
allows more weight to carry over on our shoulders from the results
of today. You will read all walks of life pertaining to:
inspiration, love, commitment, prayers, life's realities, divided
families, child molestation, teen parenting, step parenting and
more. What if we can change lives with someone else for one day
maybe longer depending on the SITUATION in which you are put in?
What if a father can exchange places with a mother, a man can
change places with a woman, a single person can change places with
a married person, a child can change places with their parent, a
suspect can change places with a victim, the system can change
places with those in need, etc. To walk in someone else shoes and
seek why they suffer from emotional distress will better help you
understand why they are the way they are. A FAMILY THAT PRAYS
TOGETHER, STAYS TOGETHER THOSE WHO FAIL TO PRAY, FAIL TO SUCCEED
The formula presented by this book aims to: 1. Help you find what
talents and skills you love to practice and show you how you can
transform your dreams into clear goals;. 2. Show you some materials
that successful people use to achieve their goals;. 3. Provide you
with time-management tips that will help you prioritize the
required tasks for transforming your life into continuous
productivity; and 4. Provide you with a daily planning formula that
will help you make daily, weekly, and monthly performance
assessments.
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