The most demanding years are loosening their grip. The children are grown or nearly so, the hardest caregiving is behind, and into the space they leave comes a question that can feel like a threat or a thrilling invitation: now what? Second Spring is here to make it an invitation — and a spectacular one.Vibrant, worldly, and brimming with encouragement, this book overturns the tired story that the second half of a woman’s life is a long decline. It offers a far truer and m...

A curious unicorn travels to the city to see the sights. There he meets a wizard and sorceress who try to steal his horn and power. He escapes and finds the value of trust and friendship . 5 languages parallel for language learning.

You were taught that strength is hard. Tough, unbending, invulnerable. You built the armor, toughened up, suppressed your softness — and it worked, in a way. You are seen as strong. You are also, perhaps, lonely, exhausted, and cut off from your own tenderness.What if hardness was never real strength at all?In this gentle, quietly assured book, Imogen Radcliffe overturns the belief that strength must be hard. Drawing on the image of the reed that bends in the storm...

Somewhere in your head, right now, there is a list. It is not written down. It contains the shoes that are getting tight, the form due Friday, the appointment nobody has booked, and about two hundred other things. Nobody handed it to you. It simply accumulated, and now it never switches off.The Invisible List is a dry, practical, unsentimental guide to the cognitive labor of running a household, and to putting a substantial portion of it down. Not the chores, which are vis...

You were handed a self before you could choose it. It is time to give it back.From your earliest years, you were told who to be: nice, agreeable, accommodating, pleasing. You wore that self so long it came to feel like you. But it was never you — it was who you were told to be. And underneath it, waiting, is who you actually are.Unbecoming is a bold, clear-eyed guide to shedding the borrowed self. Vivian Blackwood does not offer soothing platitudes...

There is a kind of tiredness that sleep does not fix — the bone-deep depletion of a woman who is always needed, always busy, and never quite able to hear herself think. The Quiet Hour is for her.Warm, honest, and refreshingly free of impossible advice, this book makes a simple promise: you do not need a quieter house, a lighter schedule, or a different life to find peace. You need only to learn to see the small pockets of stillness already hidden in your o...

You give and give — to your family, your work, everyone who needs you — until there is nothing left. And then you give from the nothing. If you are exhausted, depleted, running on fumes and wondering how much longer you can keep going, this book is for you.The Overflowing Cup offers a different way to live: not scraping the bottom of an empty cup, but giving from the overflow of one kept full. Drawing on hard-won experience, Diane Merrick shows that fillin...

You feel things deeply. When someone you love is hurting, you hurt too. You notice the person left out, the friend whose smile doesn’t reach her eyes. You are tender-hearted — and that tenderness, without protection, has been quietly wearing you down for years.Boundaries for the Tender-Hearted is written for the kind woman who gives and gives until she is depleted and resentful, who finds that small word — no — almost impossible to say. With warmth and pra...

There comes a morning when the fog lifts — when the children finally sleep, the endless demands ease, and a little space returns to your mind — and into that space comes a question you have not had room to ask in years: who am I now?Warm, honest, and hopeful, After the Diapers is a companion for the woman surfacing from the all-consuming baby years into a life with room in it again, and finding herself, to her surprise, a bit of a stranger. It nam...

The Littlest Coyote, the puppy who loves to howl, makes a mistake and poops on the floor. The children find out and panic. They run through the house trying to find the parents who are busy. And soon puppies and children are running wildly through the house and yard chasing him. He finds safety in Billy's room, admits his mistake, and he learns some things about families, mistakes, and forgiveness.

While the Littlest Coyote and Billy are playing in their room, they meet a baby dragon who cannot fly. They travel to the magical realm of Skyfold Castle to see if they can help him learn. And they all learn to fly with the help of new friends

Most of your life is ordinary days. This is a book about learning to love them.We save our attention for the big moments — the milestones, the celebrations, the highlights — and treat the ordinary days in between as mere filler to be gotten through. But add up all the big moments of a life and they amount to a handful of days. The rest, the overwhelming majority, is ordinary: Tuesdays, meals, errands, the small repeated business of living. This is not the waiting room for ...