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FIVE POETS began as a vision: What if five writers, two women and three men, who were something else professionally before they became writers-farmers, college reference librarians, psychotherapists, paralegals, and psychiatrists-wrote about their experiences with aging, illness, and mortality? And what if they came together to publish a book of poetry, which only two had done previously? This is the book of their fulfilled vision: ten poems ...

My wife Marian and I were married 57 years. It was a happy marriage. Then she experienced the catastrophic symptoms of Alzheimer's. She locked the doors and hid the keys. She saw strange people in our home. She got confused-even on familiar roads. Food did not taste good. She talked to her mother who had died years ago. She thought we had money problems. She couldn't use the remote on our TV. She got agitated when someone disagreed. She would ...

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Do you yearn to try something new, to spice up your life, to enjoy a new adventure? Is a voice from within calling to you and saying, "Come follow me?" Yet is there another over-powering voice that tells you: "You have too much to do already..." "Don't try - you might fail..." "You're too old..." "You're too fat..." or too whatever? Read the stories of women from all walks of life who overcame fears and self-doubt to accomplish what they on...

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In 1937, Frania is a typical Polish teenager, sneaking out her bedroom window at night to go to dances and falling in love with boys her father does not approve of. Then her world turns upside down when her country is invaded first by the Germans, and then by the Russians. She and her family are deported to a labor camp in Siberia, where they endure many hardships. Even after being granted amnesty, they spend years trying to escape Russia. Som...

Sunlight Fragments is a collection of poems that recognizes that light seldom bursts fully and magnificently into human experience. Rather it enters our sometime darkness and despair in a fragmentary way - as fragments of light - especially in the form of healing love. This volume, while written against a backdrop of darkness we sometimes associate with trauma, aging, and death, is for the most part about light. It is about hope, even lightnes...

In Fifty-two Pieces, Dr. Joel Berman runs the gamut from heart-rending, nerve-racking tales of medical emergencies to cleverly humorous short stories involving minor thugs, gorgeous women, and sometimes clueless protagonists whose lives endure the most outrageous complications. These fifty-two short tales are guaranteed to make you alternately laugh and cry.

Following her divorce after many years of marriage, Carolyn delves into her past only to discover some confusing similarities: three generations of women, three divorces, two absent fathers, two missing Christmases. While trying to establish her new, independent life, she journeys to the source, her mother's hometown in Iowa, searching for solutions to these puzzles. Her mother's trunk, filled with treasures and hidden away in a cousin's attic...

If laughter is the best medicine, then this collection is sure to cure what ails you. From the lowly "Appendix" to the lesser-known "Zonule of Zinn, " these playful poems present an alphabet of body parts. The accompanying Devil's Dictionary plays havoc with various medical (and some non-medical) definitions. A definite must-read for anyone who enjoys humor, especially those in the medical profession.