LIFE IS DIFFICULT. IT SHOULD BE HAPPY, INVIGORATING, CHALLENGING, AND REWARDING. HOWEVER, IN MANY LIVES JUST THE OPPOSITE SEEMS TO HAPPEN. IT CAN BECOME SAD, DISAPPOINTING, AND FRUSTRATING. What we need is truth and light at the end of the tunnel. To get to these things is always a challenge and a trial of our patience. Many, sadly, never learn the truth, and their life is not the life that God intended them to have. This story has many things people can identify with. This is a true story...

Life is real and difficult. It should be happy, invigorating, challenging,and rewarding. However, in many lives just the opposite seems to happen. Itturns sad, disappointing, frightening, and frustrating. "Will someone giveme some answers before I explode or die???"What we need is truth and a light at the end of the tunnel. To get to thesethings is always a challenge and a trial of our patience. Many, sadly, neverlearn the truth, and their li...

Life is real, and difficult. It should be happy, invigorating, challenging, and rewarding. However in many lives just the opposite seems to happen. It turns to sad, disappointing, frightening, and frustrating. "Will someone give me some answers before I explode or die???"What we need is truth and a light at the end of the tunnel. To get to these things is always a challenge and a trial of our patience. Many, sadly, never learn the truth, and their life is not the life that God inte...

“Part portrait of a place, part rescue manual, part rumination of life and death, Population: 485 is a beautiful meditation on the things that matter.” — Seattle TimesWelcome to New Auburn, Wisconsin (population: 485) where the local vigilante is a farmer’s wife armed with a pistol and a Bible, the most senior member of the volunteer fire department is a cross-eyed butcher with one kidney and two ex-wives (both of whom work at the only gas station...

Imagine raising six spirited kids on a grass farm—today. Newspaper columnist Dorcas Smucker and her brood live out their days in full view in this collection of musings—picking blueberries while watching for bears, hoping for angels while driving off the freeway, moving into the “thousand-story house,” and enduring lectures from teenage children about the virtue of respect. Three books in one, this collection includes Smucker’s Ordinary Days: Family Life in a Farmhouse, Upstai...

Karen O’Connor, bestselling author of Gettin’ Old Ain’t for Wimps (more than 300,000 copies sold), offers a great collection of humorous anecdotes on senior moments. Readers in the better half of life will discover 365 rather funny situations to avoid, with some of them sounding all too familiar. They are encouraged to avoid…leaving the key in the front door and going to sleep feeling secure.purchasing a book to improve your memory but leaving it at the che...

Ever wonder about people who are always laughing? They are usually remembering stories they have read in the TWENTY FUNNY STORIES books.What do these things have in common? Juicy-Fruit gum, crazy drivers, the look, the social security office - they are stories in Twenty Funny Stories, book Six along with many more to make you laugh out loud

The author of *Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs*is back with a funny and poignant new collection of personal stories about growing up a misfit.A collection of stories for anyone who shuddered at the idea of senior prom, Revenge of the Paste Eaters is about the way the experiences of childhood stay with us and shape us into adults.Cheryl Peck applies her signature wit to more personal stories and reflectio...

Are you someone who's always running late for work? Is your boss getting fed up with your generic explanations like, "I was stuck in traffic" or "I was having car troubles"? If you need to spice up your repertoire of excuses, '365 Reasons Why I'm Too Late For Work' is a must have in your arsenal of deceit. Is your boss suspicious of your latest half-assed attempt to explain your tardiness? Then hit him with a new excuse he's sure to never see coming. Try this on for size, "I got stuck in t...

The End of Youth is a collection of 13 linked stories, essays and rants, about carrying on after youth's hope is gone. In "Afraid of the Dark," a child learns that there is good reason to be afraid. The adolescent narrator of "Description of a Struggle" finds that love can be brutal. "The Smokers" examines an adult's realization that longevity means seeing loved ones die. Written with the same spare and vivid beauty as her earlier award-winning works, The End of Youth is ...

Ranging from lyrical commands to surreal narratives, Aaron Burch's short fictions swirl with whimsy, meditation, sadness, and hope; blur the line between real and imagined; and focus on loss of lovers, of family members, and even of one's self. From the founder and editor of the literary journal Hobart.

Everyone hates to wait and wait and wait. We wait at the laundromat, we wait for the Doctor, Dentist, and x-rays, and we wait at the airport, bus stop, and the taxi to arrive. We wait between classes, in traffic when the road is blocked, for car repair, and on Black Friday we wait to get the best shopping sale and discount possible. Every day, we will be forced to wait in a chair, on a bench, in a waiting area, often for much longer than we had planned for.This series has been writ...