An Instant New York Times Bestseller “This voice-driven, relatable, heartfelt and emotional story will make any parent tear up.” —Good Morning America, “15 Delightful Books Perfect for Spring Reading” Operating Instructions meets Glennon Doyle in this new book by famed NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly that is destined to become a classic—about the year before her son goes to college—and the joys, losses and surprises that happen along the way. The time for do-overs is over. Ever since she became a parent, Mary Louise Kelly has said “next year.” Next year will be the year she makes it to her son James’s soccer games (which are on weekdays at 4 p.m., right when she is on the air on NPR’s All Things Considered, talking to millions of listeners). Drive carpool for her son Alexander? Not if she wants to do that story about Ukraine and interview the secretary of state. Like millions of parents who wrestle with raising children while pursuing a career, she has never been cavalier about these decisions. The bargain she has always made with herself is this: this time I’ll get on the plane, and next year I’ll find a way to be there for the mom stuff. Well, James and Alexander are now seventeen and fifteen, and a realization has overtaken Mary Louise: her older son will be leaving soon for college. There used to be years to make good on her promises; now, there are months, weeks, minutes. And with the devastating death of her beloved father, Mary Louise is facing act three of her life head-on. Mary Louise is coming to grips with the reality every parent faces. Childhood has a definite expiration date. You have only so many years with your kids before they leave your house to build their own lives. It’s what every parent is supposed to want, what they raise their children to do. But it is bittersweet. Mary Louise is also dealing with the realities of having aging parents. This pivotal time brings with it the enormous questions of what you did right and what you did wrong. This chronicle of her eldest child’s final year at home, of losing her father, as well as other curve balls thrown at her, is not a definitive answer―not for herself and certainly not for any other parent. But her questions, her issues, will resonate with every parent. And, yes, especially with mothers, who are judged more harshly by society and, more important, judge themselves more harshly. What would she do if she had to decide all over again? Mary Louise’s thoughts as she faces the coming year will speak to anyone who has ever cared about a child or a parent. It. Goes. So. Fast. is honest, funny, poignant, revelatory, and immensely relatable.
Nothing is what it seems in NPR correspondent Mary Louise Kelly’s “riveting, twisty tale” (Hallie Ephron, author of Night Night, Sleep Tight), in which a woman discovers a decades-old bullet at the base of her neck. Caroline Cashion is stunned when an MRI reveals that she has a bullet lodged near the base of her skull. It makes no sense: she has never been shot. She has no scar. When she confronts her parents, she learns the truth: she was adopted when she was three years old, after her real parents were murdered in cold blood. Caroline had been there the night of the attack, and she’d been hit by a single gunshot to the neck. Buried too deep among vital nerves and blood vessels, the surgeons had left it, and stitched up the traumatized little girl with the bullet still inside. Now, thirty-four years later, Caroline returns to her hometown to learn whatever she can about who her parents were, and why they died. A cop who worked the case reveals that even after all these years, police still don’t have enough evidence to nail their suspect. The bullet in Caroline’s neck could identify the murderer... and that person will do anything to keep it out of the law’s hands. Now Caroline will have to decide: run for her life, or stay and fight? With non-stop action, “an extremely likable narrator and twists and turns galore” (Alice LaPlante, author of Turn of Mind), The Bullet will keep you riveted until the very last page.
It all started in 1975. I was 15 years, 344 days old, nothing but a kid, albeit a kid they'd highlighted in The Year Book as a 'hard case'. I was 4 months out of juvey, and I had a swagger, an edge, abrasion So begins the hilarious, often vexed, and constantly twisted story of Teri Louise Kelly in this first volume of her memoirs.
This book explores the notion of authenticity in leaders and examines how authentic leadership is supported by emotional intelligence (EI), resiliency, and mindfulness. In identifying mindfulness as a key to developing self-awareness along with sincere and transparent relationships with others, the author argues that mindfulness allows leaders to achieve greater authenticity and moral perspective in their leadership journey. As authentic leadership increases empowerment and inclusion, this work pays particular attention to how mindfulness can help support leaders from hisotrically marginalized communities and women leaders to lead in a way that is more congruent with their identities and values. Understanding the antecedents of authentic leadership in mindfulness and other related psychological constructs will extend research on leadership development. Based on empirical studies, as well as theoretical constructs, this book will appeal to researchers with expertise in organizational change, diversity and inclusion, strategy, workplace spirituality, and other topics related to leadership.
I was once told by a friend that I lived a `charmed` life. It was not, however, until my life`s calm was deeply perturbed that I realized what real charm is. I believe now that it is the capacity to know, profoundly, that all is well when reality would suggest otherwise. This was the life lesson I was about to be introduced to, following our son`s brain cancer diagnosis at the age of nine, and the writings of `The Treasure Is Within` provided a lifeline to me when I feared I would lose all faith in life and in myself. It was only after the completion of part one of these writings that I asked who I was speaking to: Speaking to you now is your Higher Office. Behind each human `being` is this same community of hopes and desires. We desire for you to know that our attention in your regard is never-ending and complete, urging you in the direction of your greatest desires. When there is resistance we find it difficult to be fully efficient but when you let go in trust that all is working out for the best then indeed it does.
With neither mercy nor apology, AMERICAN BLOW JOB penetrates to the core of America's now vacuous soul and exposes Lady Liberty for the paramour that in fact she has become in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
This book will guide you in following your dream. How you can become involved in lifting up the name of Jesus while He is away. The purpose of this book is to get as many young people involved in prioritizing by putting God first in their lives. Study closely Gods plan of salvation for His Creation. How Jesus(Gods only Son)come to earth to give His life as a ransom for many. We should prepare ourselves academically as well as spiritually. The choice is ours to accept Christ as Savior or reject Him.
The dark side of this genre and gender bending author has long been known. But here, in A Double Pass to Aberration we witness Kelly toying playfully with vampires and zombies in alternative ways in two humour-laced genre and gender-bending tales. . In the first tale, The Mortician's Kiss, Kelly adheres to the traditional Stoker formula of old houses, disease, wily cannibal doctors and blood-sucking countesses but throws in lesbianism as inducement. In the second, Standing on a Bridge with Richey Edwards, Kelly leaps into the present, the present of council estate tedium, pop culture and ridiculousness; juxtaposing the reincarnation of the Manic Street Preachers' suicided lead singer with bathtub existence and life on the dole. Both different, both enchanting, Kelly's mind warp continues to expand along a bent curvature. Try her and see for yourself: push the door, begin; after all, the first step is not the hardest, the last is.
I'm youth; I'm joy; I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg." With these words, Zoey Elita Chance, a lover of words, thus enters the 'real world' after college graduation. She is ready to try her hand at living in New York City, although she has lived most of her life in the quiet, naove, little Colorado town of Pristine. On New Year's Eve 1998, she hears of the state quarters to be minted by the US Treasury starting in 1999 with the Delaware quarter and ending in 2008 with the Hawaii quarter, released in order of admittance to the Union. She wonders what changes her life will endure from that moment until she finds the Hawaii quarter, the final one to be minted. A kind, sensitive, thoughtful girl, she grapples with similar and poignant questions and dilemmas that plague many of us, especially post-college females in the twenty-first century. As a college graduate with a double major in History and Literature, she is interested in current events, the human condition, and both real and fabricated stories. She takes interest in listening to others. The majority of the story is set in New York City. When the story opens, Zoey is already six years into the task of writing her first novel, Broken Things, one that she began writing as a sophomore in high school, and she is finding the task much more daunting that she expected. It becomes clear to readers that she has suffered from some emotional trauma that she parallels in her novel. She holds this distress inside herself and creates a safe avenue for her emotions in the form of Tabitha, the main character of Broken Things. Tabitha, a ballet dancer, becomes known to the readers for her desire to make everything better. Zoeyabandons Broken Things on many occasions, only to be drawn back to the desire to complete it once and for all. Zoey's employment includes editor's assistant, freelance writer, waitress, cashier, and a few other odd jobs, "to pay the bills." Her freelance job, with varying assignments, opens her eyes to the importance of education as well as the value of open-mindedness and compassion. She is given the opportunity to travel, and visits places such as Mount Rushmore, San Francisco, and New Orleans, on her cross-country journey. The world is not always fair, she learns early on, and she is indoctrinated into unjust practices that make her doubt herself. She continues struggling to earn a buck, with a few small windfalls padding her bank account, always keeping alive the goal of becoming a published author. But this is not an easy road; she is reminded of this time and time again. Zoey finds love many times, but it never seems to last. She wavers on what kind of man she wants: is it Doug, the quiet young man she meets on Amsterdam Avenue? Or Rusty, the athletic, pompous young guy whom she meets in Northampton, Massachusetts? Or maybe it's Jake. Zoey finds the illusive game of love hard to play at times, in part because of the trauma she is holding in. She has a frailty that she works hard to hide from others. Throughout the novel, Zoey has the opportunity to spend time outside of New York City, and these times make her question whether or not urban life is for her. Such times are when she stays at a farmhouse in Windsor, Vermont, at a beach house on Goose Rocks Beach, in Kennebunkport, Maine, and at her parents' home in Pristine, Colorado. That gentle tug between country and city is evidentthroughout the novel. Zoey is a loyal, well-meaning friend, sometimes struggling with the boundaries and trials of friendships. There is Sarah, her fellow writing friend, who writes of heinous characters and situations. There is Sara, whose actions force Zoey to ponder the meaning and value of friendships. There is Nicole, an honorary sister, who Zoey claims is so very much like herself. There is Celeste, who offers a view of life through a dissimilar lens. There is Cecile, like a mentor to Zoey, reminding her to
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