Little Old Ladies don't just happen--they are created by default. The road to little old lady-hood starts early in mid life but if a well thought out plan of prevention is in place, midlife women can keep and improve their current level of youthful attributes for at least another 25 years. One reason most women don't achieve their desired degree of agelessness is because the traditional retirement oriented senior culture does not support growth and productivity. The negative power of the senior culture is something few women are aware of, and nobody talks about it...until now. This aging influence in the lives of older women has finally been "outed" and you must discover what it's all about and how to avoid it in No More Little Old Ladies!
About two years ago, when God looked around and spied Cora, a ragamuffin orphaned cat and Barbara, a disheveled, lonely 90-year-old widow, he knew there was a need for a call to action. It must have broken his kind heart to see Cora's once lustrous fur, now dull and matted from weeks of living alone in a dark closet and to despair at Barbara’s tangled, unbrushed hair, slouched shoulders and worn and saggy jammies. God knew how uncomfortable—itchy and grimy—these two must feel, but he knew they needed more than a bath and cosmetic fixes. More than anything, this desultory duo needed compassion, friendship, love, warmth, understanding and heaps of hugs. In short, they needed each other. And so, God gave them as gifts to each other. Clearly they went together like peanut butter and jelly or gin and tonic. It was easy, not just because these were divine actions, but because Cora and Barbara lived in a retirement community on the same floor (the 13th) and same hallway. Cora was hiding in the closet because Marjorie, her owner, was dying, and the apartment was crammed with hospital equipment, nurses, aides, family and friends. Barbara was living a life of boredom alone at the other end of the hall because Ward, her husband of 56 years, a retired naval officer had suddenly died. During their married life, Barbara and Ward had joyfully traveled the world—to 100 countries. Now, mourning and alone, Barbara had no urge to travel. She wasn’t pleased to admit it to herself, but she had no purpose in life. Well, God took care of that by sending Cora down the hall to be cared for when Marjorie died. She was a gift from God to Barbara. What a gift! A ramshackle little cat who was not only orphaned, but deaf! Well, so was Barbara. What a pair.
Once called "America's greatest actress," renowned for the passion and power of her performances, Clara Morris (1847-1925) has been largely forgotten. A Spectacle of Suffering: Clara Morris on the American Stage is the first full-length study of the actress's importance as a feminist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Detailing her daunting health problems and the changing tastes in entertainment that led to her retirement from the stage, Barbara Wallace Grossman explores Morris's dramatic reinvention as an author. During a second robust career, she published hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles and nine books—six works of fiction and three memoirs. Grossman draws on the fifty-four-volume diary that Morris kept from 1868 until 1924, as well as on the manuscript fragments and notes of journalist George T. MacAdam, who died in 1929 before completing the actress's biography. Grossman provides a dramatic account of Morris's life and work from her troubled early years, through an unhappy marriage, morphine addiction, and invalidism, to the challenges of touring, the decline of her artistic reputation, and the demands of the writing career she pursued so tenaciously. A Spectacle of Suffering reveals how Morris, even after experiencing blindness and the loss of her home, livelihood, and family, did not succumb to despair and found comfort in the small pleasures of her circumscribed life. A Spectacle of Suffering recovers an important figure in American theatre and ensures that Morris will be remembered not simply as an actress but as a respected writer and beloved public figure, admired for her courage in dealing with adversity. The book, which is enhanced by twenty-four illustrations, is the only published biography of Clara Morris. It is as much a tribute to the power of the human spirit as it is an effective means of exploring American theatre and society in the Gilded Age.
Barbara Morris distils her own experience and her daily contact with seniors into an easy-to-follow program to minimise and reverse the negative aspects of ageing. Her recommendations for optimum nutrition, exercise, and mental stimulation can halt, and even reverse, the onset of old age. The adverse effects of negative thinking about ageing are explained, and strategies for combating these self-defeating attitudes are outlined in detail. Tests to determine biological age give readers a sense of how young they are now and what needs to be done to set and achieve their goals.
This is THE book for pre-retired women who don't want to become traditional seniors. It is for healthy women who want to continue to grow and be productive in their mature years.
In, LEADING TO READING THE EASY WAY Barb Morris suggests easy ways to prepare your child for learning to read and write at school. The ideas she suggests are low cost, lots of fun and easy to adapt to fit your child's interests and imagination. The most important people in children's early education are their parents. Success in reading and writing is a major contributing factor to success in life. You can help make this happen for your child. LEADING TO READING THE EASY WAY includes: Reading aloud, Letters of the alphabet, Sounds of letters, Forming letters, Writing.
Funny You Should Think About a Return to Judaism/A Journey From Comedy Stages to the Wisdom of Sages By Richard Morris This book is about priorities. A ship that is changing course will inevitably move forward to another destination. And that course might, indeed, lead that vessel to more inviting and fulfilling waters than at first imagined. Richard Morris is a stand-up comedian and writer who was one of the original writers, and a frequent guest, on NBC's Late Night with David Letterman. He has written a book about his transformation from total devotion to a show business lifestyle, to how he had the chance to realize a deeper, more personal awareness: the story of how he learned about his Judaism again. The spiritual and practical level he had the opportunity to go searching for turned out to be the funny, inspiring and very personal story of his travels, his encounters, and the great clarity that he found. Richard's story is told here. But everyone who is Jewish can apply it to his or her own journey; their own circumstances; their own dreams. Everybody has a story. With Richard's book, non-Jews can also certainly be inspired by this story of Jewish return, to look at their own respective religions in a new, practical, and yes, funny way. It's all about feeling connected to something substantial, of real value, and also about being able to laugh about something that's often looked at as something very serious. Look for this book to entertain, inspire and be revealing. And as it's been said in many Jewish delicatessens through the years: Enjoy!
The purpose of this book is to encourage others that Jesus is real. He is still working miracles today, and I am a living witness to that because He healed my body. This book can be used as an evangelism tool. It has prayers in it to help during the difficult times. I pray that this book will be a blessing to you and all those you choose to bless with it.
A heartfelt story about a little girl who adopts a tiny basset hound puppy and starts a whirlwind of adventures. Nikki loves helping set up items at her uncle's weekly auction. Her favorite job is making a big batch of her sour lemon-aid which always makes people pucker! This week a man pulls up and has three adorable puppies that he would like to adopt to good homes. Nikki immediately falls in love and wants to adopt one of the adorable puppies. However, she only has her "sticky" quarter that she earned at last week's auction. A woman adopts the first two for ten dollars each but leaves the smallest one behind. Uncle AJ nods towards Nikki and winks at the crowd. It appears that today, a sticky quarter is just enough to adopt Abbey Dog!
Chicken Soup meets Erma Bombeck in these slice-of-life essays, laced with humor and nostalgia on everyday subjects--Christmas pageants, Brownie camp, pets, diets, yard sales, mothers-and-daughters. Written by a woman, for women. Ideal gift book.
In "A Legacy Lived," Allen Morris tells how he managed a career as one of South Florida's most successful real estate developers while committing himself fully to his family and his faith. The real life struggles of Allen and his wife, Ida, offer insight and inspiration for men and women who face the challenge of living in the twenty-first century
This riveting novel is set in a small town located on the Ohio River in the year of 1869. The characters explode on the pages as if you were there living every aspect of their lives. The main character, Brenda Shaw, learns about her weaknesses and strengths. She learns how to use them both through conniving and deception, and she plots her every move in those times back when proper women left that up to the stronger sex. Brenda's desires of one man threw her into an unforgiving world of flesh and lust. Tony leaves her pregnant before he goes on his travels. Due to her pregnancy she has to leave her profession early. At that awful dismissal of her profession there come more tragedies, many more...
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