This is truly my favorite relationship book. It really gets to the core of the problem, explains why things like infidelity happen and then give you tools to prevent it. The analogies in this book are great, for example, the Love Bank. They use the love bank to explain how when you meet someone and things are wonderful, this person is making deposits in your love bank. Eventually those deposits add up to a marriage. They also explain how certain things cause withdrawals from your love bank. In the normal course of marriage you will both make deposits and withdrawals … Continue reading →

Stephen King is my favorite author so I thought I would review some of his books. The Green Mile is one of my favorites. I’ve read it several times and still cry every time I read it. This book is an example of both the best and the worst sides of humanity. The book was written as a six part serial novel. The hardest thing was waiting for the next installment to come out but at the same time waiting gave me time to digest the parts I had already read. The Green Mile starts with two little dead girls … Continue reading →

Ralph Roberts knew his wife was going to die, no one told him and if all the tests and doctors weren’t enough to confirm it, the ticking of the deathwatch he started to hear from within her convinced him. The summer before Carolyn died Ralph started taking increasingly long walks to escape the ticking. Carolyn didn’t really notice, she was heavily medicated against the pain most of the time and was unaware when Ralph left the house. It was on one of these walks that Ralph discovered there was something very wrong in Derry, although he didn’t yet know what. … Continue reading →

The sub title for this book is – Use your spending power to create a cleaner, greener world- and that’s just what they show you how to do. Diane explains how every dollar you spend impacts manufacturers decisions and how pointing your spending dollar can influence how products are made and the environmental impact they have. One of the examples of this change is tea. Usually tea is grown with lots of pesticides by farmers who are not paid a fair wage and whose children usually have to work in those fields. Thanks to the demand for organic teas many … Continue reading →

Annie Lamott has raised her son Sam as a single mother since his birth. She looked forward to the day she would be a grandmother, but not now, not while Sam was so young, not while she was still so young. But baby Jax was not to be denied and this is a touching story of one woman’s trip into grandparenthood along with interviews with her son. Through these interviews we get to see Sam’s world change as he becomes a father. Annie bounces between wanting to allow Sam and Amy the space to figure this parent and relationship thing … Continue reading →

Patrick Swayze has been apart of our lives for a long time. We watched him act, watched him dance, but in this book we get to know the man behind the big screen. Patrick was a dancer his whole life and he fell in love with a dancer. The love story that Patrick and Lisa share is one almost unheard of in the shadow of those big lights. Yet somehow, they managed to do it. Patrick and Lisa shared almost everything in life. This book is a story of where Patrick came from and who he became, before he became … Continue reading →

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to parent nineteen children? I never thought about that as a goal for myself and when the Duggar family kept getting bigger and bigger, I thought those people must be crazy! I am always fascinated with stories about large families and this book is wonderful. It’s amazing that anyone can raise that many children and live debt free. That alone is enough to write a book about, but Michelle and Jim Bob give us more. In the book they explain more about their faith. Not really the deep down what they … Continue reading →