After her birth mother dies, the author begins a five-year voyage of self discovery. With the assistance of Mary Magdalen and others, she strives to create for herself a "loving mother within," as she learns what it means to treat herself as a beloved.
All children in the United States can get an education for free if they will work for it. "Ay, there's the rub!" Work ethic, changing priorities, time and technology, money and accountability.. And whose job is it?
In a story of love, magic, joy, and goodness, a young hamlet girl's courage and strength of self bring light and hope to a land fallen under a dark spell. Of course, she meets a handsome prince along the way!
With her signature warmth, hilarity, and tendency to overshare, Leslie Gray Streeter gives us real talk about love, loss, grief, and healing in your own way that "will make you laugh and cry, sometimes on the same page" (James Patterson). Leslie Gray Streeter is not cut out for widowhood. She's not ready for hushed rooms and pitying looks. She is not ready to stand graveside, dabbing her eyes in a classy black hat. If she had her way she'd wear her favorite curve-hugging leopard print dress to Scott's funeral; he loved her in that dress! But, here she is, having lost her soulmate to a sudden heart attack, totally unsure of how to navigate her new widow lifestyle. ("New widow lifestyle." Sounds like something you'd find products for on daytime TV, like comfy track suits and compression socks. Wait, is a widow even allowed to make jokes?) Looking at widowhood through the prism of race, mixed marriage, and aging, Black Widow redefines the stages of grief, from coffin shopping to day-drinking, to being a grown-ass woman crying for your mommy, to breaking up and making up with God, to facing the fact that life goes on even after the death of the person you were supposed to live it with. While she stumbles toward an uncertain future as a single mother raising a baby with her own widowed mother (plot twist!), Leslie looks back on her love story with Scott, recounting their journey through racism, religious differences, and persistent confusion about what kugel is. Will she find the strength to finish the most important thing that she and Scott started? Tender, true, and endearingly hilarious, Black Widow is a story about the power of love, and how the only guide book for recovery is the one you write yourself.
Morale, Welfare, and Recreation (MWR) programs are key to building resilient and ready Airmen and families. The authors develop a resilience and readiness model, compare it to target outcomes of MWR services, and suggest next steps for evaluation.
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