Ladies finding true love is like ordering a meal in a restaurant? According to Olivia Engelstein, a happily married 40-year-old woman, mother and author of “Order the Man of Your Dreams: A Tasty Recipe to Find Love,” the process is the same. You look over...

"The unexamined life is not worth living," was supposedly said by the great philosopher, Socrates. If you have ever wondered why you do or don't do, or why you act or react as you do, in any given situation, you may just find the answer...

"Seeing Red: A Woman’s Quest for Truth, Power, and the Sacred" is a moving memoir of Lone Mørch’s journey to self discovery, freedom, self love, and the power that everyone has within them. Lone is from Denmark, but she makes her home in many other...

"Loving Conor: A Clairvoyant’s Memoir on Loving, Bonding, and Healing" by Tami Urbanek begins dramatically by relating the trials and tribulations of an early marriage plagued by domestic abuse, alcoholism and the struggle to self-actualize. I felt Urbanek executed emotional truth on the written page...

Author Jim Haskins displays an incredible amount of courage and determination in "Our Hearts were Khaki and Gay"’ Back in 1950, openly admitting you were gay was unheard of. Then, compound it with the fact that he was also serving for the U.S. armed forces...

A seemingly uneventful pregnancy turned otherwise when Mary Wilcox’s water broke at twenty-four weeks. Despite all the efforts by the doctors and nurses, they could not prevent the early delivery of Nathaniel who was born weighing merely 688 grams. Narrated from a father’s point of...

Letter writing is a lost art. It used to be that everyone knew how to craft a well done letter and they did it often. Letter writing was not considered odd or unique; it was simply an everyday thing. If you have ever had the...

"On Edge", written by Bob MacKenzie, is an intriguing book of emotions, thoughts, and circumstances in a poetic form. MacKenzie reveals topics within his poetry that are often hard to speak of in a natural everyday conversation. Within the 16 poems laid out in his...

Most parents want to do a good job of raising their children. Like marriage, though, we get most of our training "on the job" making for a very bumpy career in our closest, and most critical relationships. If only . . . if only we...

Joan Theriot-Broussard writes about the death of her husband at 51 years of age, and her process of grieving. She makes the point well that grieving is a process, as the book was published 13 years after his death. We will all deal with the...