For fans of David Sedaris and Nora Ephron, here isa humorous, irreverent, and poignant look at the gifts, stereotypes, and inevitable challenges of aging, based on the wildly popular New York Times essay from award-winning journalist Steven Petrow.
Too often, people enter the role of caregiver for an aging parent unprepared, and, as a result of exhaustion, exasperation, and guilt, fail in their objective.
Ray Francis' first book, Never Be Sick Again, helped thousands of people put their "e;incurable"e; diseases into remission and enabled thousands more to shed excess weight, improve their cholesterol profiles, and achieve peak immunity from disease.
After a life-threatening accident stopped her completely in her tracks a few years ago, author Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse and her family came to truly understand that we are all one event from a lifestyle change.
';It takes grit and wit to keep standing when your skin doesn't fit the way it used to, when you think someone stole your car but in truth you forgot where you parked it, when your grandchild looks at your figure and observes, ';Grandma, you look like a teenager except for your face!
The upheavals of modern times can render human relationships difficult under the best of circumstances, and sometimes it takes the ironies inherent in those upheavals to strengthen the most intimate of human ties.
Watching Momma Die is a true story telling not only the heartache and sadness but also the hope that takes place as the journey toward the end of life occurs.
Part culinary memoir and part travelogue, Carole Bumpus gathered this compilation of intimate interviews, conversations, stories, and traditional family recipes (cuisine pauvre) in the kitchens of French families as she traveled throughout the countryside.
A medically proven program to prevent and reverse the DNA damage that causes agingYou have it in your power to retain the health, beauty, and vitality of youth well past fifty or sixty and beyond.