Repair Your Life by Marjorie McKinnon – Book Review
Loving Healing Press (2008)ISBN 9781932690521 “Repair Your Life” offers victims of incest and childhood sexual abuse the tools to help them overcome the shame and trauma that they encountered as children. It teaches you how to become the person that you were meant to be. So many survivors of abuse get trapped in non-ending cycles [...]
Whatever! A Baby Boomer’s Journey Into Middle Age
“Whatever! A Baby Boomer’s Journey Into Middle Age” by Bev Mahone is such a quick, funny and enjoyable read that I didn’t realize I was finished! Being a “baby boomer” and less than 6 months younger than the author-I wanted to “read and compare” my life to another woman’s who was in similar circumstances. I [...]
Internet Dating is Not Like Ordering a Pizza by Cherie Burbach – Book Review
If I had only had this book four years ago when I attempted Internet dating! Cherie Burbach offers sound advice for those of us who are willing to take the chance to meet potential mates online. This book will both assist people who have unsuccessfully tried Internet dating and people who are new to it. [...]
Measure of the Heart – A Father’s Alzheimer’s, A Daughter’s Return
By Mary Ellen Geist, Springboard Press The real life account of the author, a big city reporter and journalist, who makes the decision to leave her career and go “home” and help her mother care for her father, who has Alzheimer’s disease. The story is unique as every Alzheimer’s story is and yet the same [...]
Book Review: The Cross Dresser’s Wife
Non-fiction/EssaysThe Cross Dresser’s Wife: Our Secret LivesDee A. Levy and B. Sheffield HuntCreateSpace2011Pages: 150 In the Cross Dresser’s Wife: Our Secret Lives, Dee A. Levy and B. Sheffield Hunt share the stories of women who were married to or in relationships with men who enjoy wearing women’s clothing. While there is great controversy and prejudice [...]
The Shiniest Jewel – A Family Love Story by Mariam Henley
Being familiar with Ms. Henley’s cartoons I couldn’t wait to open up my advanced reading copy of “The Shiniest Jewel.” For those not familiar with graphic novels this is a story with a complex plot that is illustrated in comic book format. It has a beginning, middle and end and it’s aimed at mature readers. [...]
"No Ordinary Love" by Doug and Jackie Christie: Book Review
No Ordinary Love by Doug & Jackie Christie with Michael Levin Infinite Love Publishing (2007) Doug and Jackie Christie are an unusual couple in the glittery world of NBA. Not only they are married and have three children together, they actually profess to love being married to each other and choose to be faithful to [...]
Review – Profileactics: A Guide for the Prevention of Ill-Conceived Personal Ads
Profileactics: A Guide for the Prevention of Ill-Conceived Personal Ads (Baby Boomer Edition), Donna F. Ferber, 2009, ISBN 9780976113317 This book looks at the world of online personal ads from the perspective of how not to do it. There are a distressingly large number of examples from which to choose. Why is this the Baby [...]
Interview With Jane Treber Macken, Author of "The Art of Managing"
Interview with Jane Treber Macken author of The Art of Managing: How to Build a Better Workplace and Relationships Infinity Publishing (2007) ISBN 9780741439338 Tyler R. Tichelaar of Reader Views is joined today by Jane Treber Macken, author of “The Art of Managing: How to Build a Better Workplace and Relationships.” Jane Treber Macken is [...]
Psychotherapy With "Impossible" Cases – The Efficient Treatment of Therapy Veterans
Those Troublesome Clients Every therapist has experienced the frustration of dealing with difficult clients. Nothing seems to work. Both client and therapist despair. Often such troubling clients are labelled “resistant” or “personality disorders.” Frequently a series of therapists become worn out by these “impossible” clients. They become “veterans” of the therapy business, thus the sub-title [...]