Beautiful Things Happen When a Woman Trusts God

Beautiful Things Happen When a Woman Trusts God

Sheila Walsh has the gift of cutting through the usual Sister-Mary-Christian God-talk, and getting to the heart of the matter – speaking the truth in a real, personal and practical way. And really, is there a better way to communicate the love of God? I have no doubt that Sheila’s regular readers, as well as someone who has never heard of her, will not only enjoy this book on its educational and insightful level – but that it will help them on a more personal level in several areas of their lives. I think this is one of Sheila’s best.

“Beautiful Things Happen When A Woman Trusts God” brings Sheila back to personal topics that her readers and Women of Faith followers are familiar with, her stay at a psychiatric hospital, her clinical depression, etc., but this book is focused on what it means to trust God with your whole life during these types of crisis. To follow Him in faith and trust. Her personal examples as well as the Biblical back up of Martha and Mary during the miracle of Lazarus, Tabitha, Gideon and Abraham really help drive home what true trust looks like and help us examine where on the scale of trust we place ourselves. Do we trust in the everyday? Do we trust with our fears? Do we trust with our lives? Do we mean it by putting it into action?

I personally read this book in 2 days. I struggle with some dyslexic tendencies, and reading is a slow process for me, but I found it to be well written, easy to read and full of things that touched my heart and, more importantly for me, made me take a harder look at my personal journey through it all. In fact, I found this book to be an answer to my own personal prayer as I battle with my own trust issues. Sheila has been able to encapsulate the hard to wrap your head around with the practical – and it works. She has once again made her personal life accessible to her readers, and given us the blessing of a message we all need to read, hear, take in and utilize in our daily lives in such a way that makes it achievable and real.

Buy this book if you are in any kind of struggle in your life. Buy this book if you don’t understand why God does what He does. Buy this book if you vacillate between trusting God with your whole heart and taking control back because He’s too slow. Buy this book for a women’s study group (there is a Bible study in the back of the book). Buy this book if you feel like God doesn’t see you. Quite simply, buy this book.

Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from Thomas Nelson Publishers as part of their [...] book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255

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Delivering a big message with strong biblical insights and heartening personal stories, author and Women of Faith speaker Sheila Walsh shows women the life-changing power of trusting in God.

Most Christian women live with a deep sense that they can’t seem to get things right, that if only they could be a little better, life would straighten out. Through her own personal hardships, Sheila Walsh has learned that the Christian life is not about getting things right or back to “normal.” She writes, “Christ comes not to get us out of our difficulties but to live in us through them.” She wants to show women that God has a stunningly beautiful moment of redemption for them that leads to a lifetime of peace and joy.

In this eye-opening message for women, she presents a moving look at her own story as she dives into the lives of Bible characters, drawing out lessons from their trials that women can use immediately to establish a deep, life-altering trust in the Father.

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My Voice Will Go With You: The Teaching Tales of Milton H. Erickson

My Voice Will Go With You: The Teaching Tales of Milton H. Erickson

I heard about this book from a number of sources over the last three years. Maybe it’s because I’m a psychology major, or because I’ve recently become fascinated at the marvel of hypnosis, but I couldn’t hold out any longer on reading about the world’s foremost hypnotherapist and the techniques he employed to produce powerful, positive changes in his clients.

Erickson’s use of metaphor and language is top notch. I read the book every night before bed for a few weeks and started to notice effects in my own life from his indirect suggestion in the text. For instance, I started remembering my dreams more vividly.

I highly encourage you to read this book if you are interested in learning about hypnosis, Erickson, want positive change in your life, or want to be fascinated with the powers of the mind.

Also check out ‘The Structure of Magic’ and ‘Frogs Into Princes’.

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Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses (P.S.)

Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses (P.S.)

For a novice in Biblical matters, such as myself, this was a good introduction to the literature of the Bible. The book presented various biblical stories in the chronological order presented in the Bible. For each story covered, the author presented a brief summary of the biblical tale, told in the context of a visit to the place where the story is said to have occurred. By using this format, the book was part historical, part modern travelogue, and part commentary.

When I picked up this book, I imagined that it would be more of an investigation of the truth and accuracy of the Biblical tales. The author (and the reader) quickly comes to learn that either the stories are clearly not factually true or there is no way of substantiating their truth and accuracy. More slowly, the author comes to the conclusion that the factual accuracy of the stories is beside the point. This admission frees the author to discuss (without judgment) the circumstances surrounding each of the stories, which for me was the most interesting part of the book. These circumstances included the historical antecedents of the stories (many were re-tellings of stories that pre-dated the Bible by many years), comparison of the biblical record versus the historical record (such as the lack of any historical record of the Jews as slaves in Egypt), the reasons why particular stories could not be true, and possible explanations of the various stories (such as what the “manna” that the Israelites ate in the desert could possibly have really been).

I also enjoyed the travelogue elements of the book. While some of Feiler’s interactions with Bedouins, Jordanians, Palestinian, Turks, Egyptians and Israelis, among others, at times felt very stereotypical, and while many of Feiler’s repeated use of junk food analogies grew tiring, I nonetheless enjoyed the descriptions of the various cities, monuments, climates, topographies and peoples that he met on his journey.

While I suspect that Feiler covers very little new ground (no pun intended), again, for a lay novice, this was a fine and interesting introduction to the Biblical literature.

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Both a heart-racing adventure and an uplifting quest, Walking the Bible describes one man’s epic odyssey—by foot, jeep, rowboat, and camel—through the greatest stories ever told. From crossing the Red Sea to climbing Mt. Sinai to touching the burning bush, Bruce Feiler’s inspiring journey will forever change your view to some of history’s most storied events.

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Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses is the story of Bruce Feiler’s 10,000-mile trek from Mount Ararat to Mount Nebo, undertaken for reasons he did not understand at the outset and accompanied by a companion who was very nearly a stranger. In the book’s first chapter, in characteristically understated style, Feiler suggests a viable parallel to his journey:

Abraham was not originally the man he became. He was not an Israelite, he was not a Jew. He was not even a believer in God–at least initially. He was a traveler, called by some voice not entirely clear that said: Go, head to this land, walk along this route, and trust what you will find.

Feiler, a fifth-generation American Jew from the South, had felt no particular attachment to the Holy Land. Yet during his journey, Feiler’s previously abstract faith grew more grounded. (”I began to feel a certain pull from the landscape…. It was a feeling of gravity. A feeling that I wanted to take off all my clothes and lie facedown in the soil.”) Feiler’s attentiveness, intelligence, and adventurousness enliven every page of this book. And the lessons he learned about the relationship between place and the spirit will be useful for readers of every religious tradition that finds its origins in the Bible. –Michael Joseph Gross

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The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir

The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir

The Welch kids are devastated when first, their father is killed in a tragic single vehicle accident, and not long after their mother is diagnosed with cancer and dies a painfully slow, wasting death. Amanda is not old enough (or mature enough) to be a mother to the other kids and Diana, the youngest is still a baby (only about 7 or 8). Dan and Liz are teenagers also, making their way through high school.

The story seems to be mostly Liz’s, and the disjointed switching of perspective throughout the book only adds to the confusion and disconnect the Welch kids feel after the funeral of their mother and the loss of their family home and each other. Diana is off to live with a neighbor family (the well to do and snooty Chamberlains) who treat her like a second class citizen in their home, although they want her to call them mom, dad, sister, brother and adopt her–one has to wonder what their motives were in taking the child on in the first place. Liz, although she has wanted to be a model/actress, she also wants to be normal and doesn’t discuss the loss of her parents with anyone–she parties with her older sister Amanda, and lives with the Stewart family (who are very controlling and weird with her) until she can take off for Europe and go to college. Dan, although handsome and also into television and commercials, is sent to boarding school (because no one can “handle him”) and that also does not go well.

The four children are flung to the four corners of the world. So disconnected from one another, they really have no idea what is going on with the other one–Diana’s “family” keeps letters and communications with her siblings from her, also forbidding the sisters to visit openly with her. The have a really rough time.

I enjoyed reading this book, and even though the stories of the four were appropriately disjointed, there was a continuity where each kid acknowledged the others story and pains. Happily, the family does come back together, reuniting mostly in Virginia, where Amanda finally settled and filled a home with furnishings that belonged to their parents.

A great little read–some of the writing is better than others, some of it is emotional, some shocking (I was a teen at the same time as these kids, the 80’s and grew up on Long Island, NY but was not club hopping in NYC–I guess the freedom of having no parents was a scary thing, because I worried about the kids!

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“Perfect is boring.”

Well, 1983 certainly wasn’t boring for the Welch family. Somehow, between their handsome father’s mysterious death, their glamorous soap-opera-star mother’s cancer diagnosis, and a phalanx of lawyers intent on bankruptcy proceedings, the four Welch siblings managed to handle each new heartbreaking misfortune in the same way they dealt with the unexpected arrival of the forgotten-about Chilean exchange student–together.

All that changed with the death of their mother. While nineteen-year-old Amanda was legally on her own, the three younger siblings–Liz, sixteen; Dan, fourteen; and Diana, eight–were each dispatched to a different set of family friends. Quick-witted and sharp-tongued, Amanda headed for college in New York City and immersed herself in an ’80s world of alternative music and drugs. Liz, living with the couple for whom she babysat, followed in Amanda’s footsteps until high school graduation when she took a job in Norway as a nanny. Mischievous, rebellious Dan, bounced from guardian to boarding school and back again, getting deeper into trouble and drugs. And Diana, the red-haired baby of the family, was given a new life and identity and told to forget her past. But Diana’s siblings refused to forget her–or let her go.

Told in the alternating voices of the four siblings, their poignant, harrowing story of un­breakable bonds unfolds with ferocious emotion. Despite the Welch children’s wrenching loss and subsequent separation, they retained the resilience and humor that both their mother and father endowed them with–growing up as lost souls, taking disastrous turns along the way, but eventually coming out right side up. The kids are not only all right; they’re back together.

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Parker Posey’s films include Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, Clockwatchers, Party Girl, and You’ve Got Mail. Read her exclusive Amazon guest review of The Kids Are All Right:

As adults, the Welches have remembered the past as they did when they were children, giving us a window into the survival meachanisms of personality, of the the capacity to undergo huge blows of fate, of the manifestations of surviving that fate–and the soulful bonding of siblings to regenerate what was lost. This book carried me along with such speed and emotion and intimacy that I felt cast in the role as their imaginary friend. This book is their song and it will rock you along.–Parker Posey

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Confessions of a Street Addict

Confessions of a Street Addict

I read this book a couple years ago, but still remember how much I liked it. It was well written and kept my interest entirely. It is a good reminder of how addicting the stock market can be and how much like a horse race it really is.

Cramer believes that anyone can make money trading and that skill is important and learnable. Supposedly studying the stocks of companies and knowing the formulas to make comparisons gives you an advantage.

Why was he on such a rollercoaster then? Do people with a normal job that invest casually have the opportunity to meet with the CEO of a company and analyze whether or not he is lying about a report that was published?

In today’s world the price of a stock is already at real value by the time any normal person can buy. Everything is a gamble unless you know something you are not supposed to know. Someone else is always going to have a better in, or advantage over you. With the speed the pros can purchase and sell knowing what you are doing and faster than you can.

I know a lot of people disagree with my view of the market, but computers took all advantages from everyday people.

Read the book, it is good. Do not take Cramers advice and ruin your life as he almost ruined his, quite a few times.

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Everyone on Wall Street knows Jim Cramer, and Cramer knows Wall Street better than anyone. In the most candid and outrageous look at Wall Street since Liar’s Poker, Cramer, co-founder of TheStreet.com, radio and television commentator, and for years a premier money manager, takes readers on the wild ride that is Wall Street — revealing how the game is played, who breaks the rules, and who gets hurt.

Confessions of a Street Addict takes us from Cramer’s roots in the middle-class Philadelphia suburbs to Harvard, where he began managing money, and then to Goldman Sachs, where he went into business with his wife — Karen, the “Trading Goddess” — as his partner. He brilliantly describes the life of a money manager: the frenetic pace, the constant pressure to outperform the market and other fund managers, and the sharklike attacks fund managers make as they circle a fund perceived to be in trouble.

Throughout the book Cramer is characteristically outspoken, offering his hard-won insights about the market and everyone in it, himself included. There has never been a more eloquent market insider than Cramer, nor a more high-octane book about Wall Street.

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It’s hard to think of anyone more intense or opinionated, or who wears as many hats as James Cramer. In Confessions of a Street Addict, the man who first made a name for himself on Wall Street successfully managing his hedge fund–and then became famous on Main Street with his manic appearances on CNBC–tells the improbable story of his career as journalist, Wall Street pundit, Internet entrepreneur, and television commentator. For the most part, Cramer manages to avoid the self-congratulatory hype that mars so many books of this ilk; in fact, what makes Confessions so compelling are the shots that Cramer takes at himself, be it his now infamous capitulation during the stock market panic of October 1998, when he wrote a piece for TheStreet.com advising readers of an impending crash just as the market began to rebound, or the callous way he treated so many around him in pursuit of the next trade. Here’s an informative, honest, and rollicking read for fans of CNBC, TheStreet.com, or anyone who has ever lost sleep thinking about their portfolios. Highly recommended. –Harry C. Edwards

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The Downhill Lie: A Hacker’s Return to a Ruinous Sport (Vintage)

The Downhill Lie: A Hacker’s Return to a Ruinous Sport (Vintage)

I got this book for my Dad for Christmas. He picked up the game of golf soon after he retired. He’s never read Carl Hiasson, before, but he is one of our favorite authors. I love his quirky style. My Dad enjoyed the book, and sent it on to share with his twin brother.

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Bestselling author Carl Hiaasen wisely quit golfing in 1973. But some ambitions refuse to die, and as the years passed and the memories of slices and hooks faded, it dawned on Carl that there might be one thing in life he could do better in middle age than he could as a youth. So gradually he ventured back to the rolling, frustrating green hills of the golf course, where he ultimately—and foolishly—agreed to compete in a country-club tournament against players who can actually hit the ball. Filled with harrowing divots, deadly doglegs, and excruciating sandtraps, The Downhill Lieis a hilarious chronicle of mis-adventurethat will have you rolling with laughter.

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The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn

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Alison Weir Has done her homework in this multi-layered, thoroughly-researched account of the last days of Henry VIII’s much-maligned wife #2.

Revisionism aside, Anne comes off as a (surprise!) political pawn in the Reformationist hands of Lord Privy Seal Thomas Cromwell, not merely as a failure in heir-producing. Her swift and stunning fall through the anti-Catholic machinations of Cromwell and Co. makes much more sense in Weir’s telling that the traditional view of Henry’s ditching yet another sonless Queen.

Though it takes a game-card to keep straight all the players in Tudor England’s court intrigues and peerage, Weir manages, especially for the American reader, to keep all the Dukes, Earls, and intermarriages easy to follow.

This is no bodice-ripper. Anne Boleyn emerges as a fully-formed though flawed woman of her time, caught in the impossibly difficult shoals of the English dictatorship under Henry Tudor. The proof of the pudding lies is the accomplishments of the remarkable daughter she produced: Elizabeth I. “The Concubine?” Not really.

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Nearly five hundred years after her violent death, Anne Boleyn, second wife to Henry VIII, remains one of the world’s most fascinating, controversial, and tragic heroines. Now acclaimed historian and bestselling author Alison Weir has drawn on myriad sources from the Tudor era to give us the first book that examines, in unprecedented depth, the gripping, dark, and chilling story of Anne Boleyn’s final days.

The tempestuous love affair between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn scandalized Christendom and altered forever the religious landscape of England. Anne’s ascent from private gentlewoman to queen was astonishing, but equally compelling was her shockingly swift downfall. Charged with high treason and imprisoned in the Tower of London in May 1536, Anne met her terrible end all the while protesting her innocence. There remains, however, much mystery surrounding the queen’s arrest and the events leading up to it: Were charges against her fabricated because she stood in the way of Henry VIII making a third marriage and siring an heir, or was she the victim of a more complex plot fueled by court politics and deadly rivalry?

    The Lady in the Tower examines in engrossing detail the motives and intrigues of those who helped to seal the queen’s fate. Weir unravels the tragic tale of Anne’s fall, from her miscarriage of the son who would have saved her to the horrors of her incarceration and that final, dramatic scene on the scaffold. What emerges is an extraordinary portrayal of a woman of great courage whose enemies were bent on utterly destroying her, and who was tested to the extreme by the terrible plight in which she found herself. 

    Richly researched and utterly captivating, The Lady in the Tower presents the full array of evidence of Anne Boleyn’s guilt—or innocence. Only in Alison Weir’s capable hands can readers learn the truth about the fate of one of the most influential and important women in English history.

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The Case for the Real Jesus: A Journalist Investigates Current Attacks on the Identity of Christ

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Read by the author, Lee Strobel

Lee Strobel has written seveal “The Case for…” books. This one explicitly counters the arguments from many different sources that question Jesus, the teachings about him and the integrity of the New Testament.

Critics argue that Strobel is not an expert on the things he writes about. I believe he would agree with that – at most he is a well-informed layman. But, Strobel did the best thing that one can do to create a rebuttal these arguments – he went out to the experts and questioned them (because, really, who is a qualified expert in all of these fields?). Strobel asks them the questions that the “anti-” crowd (really a wide range, from Muslim teachers to Hollywood directors to college professors to former Christian clergy to internet bloggers).

The beauty of having these experts interviewed rather than just reading the books they may have written is that Strobel pushes them for clearer explanations and doesn’t let them give answers that only sort of answer the questions. Strobel reads the book himself. This enables him to insert the inflections (outrage, sarcasm, sympathy, weariness and more) that were present in the original taped interviews. Of course, it would have been better to have the original recorded interviews, but the quality would not be as good as that of Strobel sitting in a recording studio and to try and re-create those interviews in a studio would be foolish – they would not have the same feel as the original interviews).

This was a most enjoyable audiobook. I learned a lot. I know my wife got tired of hearing me tell her what new thing I learned while driving to and from work. My only negative is that it is so hard to go back and find a particularly relevant piece of information in the audiobook format. In a book you can just insert a bookmark – in an audiobook the information is harder to go back and access.

Highly recommended

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Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace

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In Bad Mother, Ayelet Waldman talks about how all mothers are made to feel like they are performing poorly as mothers, regardless of their choices. Waldman is married to the novelist, Michael Chabon, and together they have four children. She gives the reader an intimate view of the choices she has made as a mother, and the negative feedback she has gotten for some of her choices.

The book is written in eighteen chapters, each discussing common parenting issues. The stay-at-home mom vs. the working mom is covered, and how each is criticized for what they choose for their family. The marriage partnership and how work is divided is a chapter. Chapters I found especially relevant was one about how they elected to abort a child identified with birth defects, and one that talked about how to discuss sex and the parents’ sexual history with one’s children. I also liked the chapter about the mother-in-law/daughter-in-law relationship which gave me new ways to look at this common issue through a new filter. The chapter about helping children with their social relationships and not dragging your own angst into the issue was timely, and I loved the chapter about hating homework.

This book is recommended for all readers. Those who are parents will recognize themselves, or at least the issues that most parents face, while those who have remained childless will gain a better understanding of what family life is like.

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In our mothers’ day there were good mothers, indifferent mothers, and occasionally, great mothers. Today we have only Bad Mothers: If you work, you’re neglectful; if you stay home, you’re smothering. If you discipline, you’re buying them a spot on the shrink’s couch; if you let them run wild, they will be into drugs by seventh grade. Is it any wonder so many women refer to themselves at one time or another as a “bad mother”?
 
Writing with remarkable candor, and dispensing much hilarious and helpful advice along the way—Is breast best? What should you do when your daughter dresses up as a “ho” for Halloween?—Ayelet Waldman says it’s time for women to get over it and get on with it in this wry, unflinchingly honest, and always insightful memoir on modern motherhood.

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In the tradition of recent hits like The Bitch in the House and Perfect Madness comes a hilarious and controversial book that every woman will have an opinion about, written by America’s most outrageous writer.

In our mothers’ day there were good mothers, neglectful mothers, and occasionally great mothers.

Today we have only Bad Mothers.

If you work, you’re neglectful; if you stay home, you’re smothering. If you discipline, you’re buying them a spot on the shrink’s couch; if you let them run wild, they will be into drugs by seventh grade. If you buy organic, you’re spending their college fund; if you don’t, you’re risking all sorts of allergies and illnesses.

Is it any wonder so many women refer to themselves at one time or another as “a bad mother”? Ayelet Waldman says it’s time for women to get over it and get on with it, in a book that is sure to spark the same level of controversy as her now legendary “Modern Love” piece, in which she confessed to loving her husband more than her children.

Covering topics as diverse as the hysteria of competitive parenting (Whose toddler can recite the planets in order from the sun?), the relentless pursuits of the Bad Mother police, balancing the work-family dynamic, and the bane of every mother’s existence (homework, that is), Bad Mother illuminates the anxieties that riddle motherhood today, while providing women with the encouragement they need to give themselves a break.

Question: Why did you write this book?

Ayelet Waldman: Do you want the snarky answer or the real one?

Q:The real one…

AW: Because so many women I know are in real pain. They are so crippled by their guilt, by their unreasonable expectations, that they can’t even allow themselves to celebrate the true joys of being a mom. When your little girl curls up in bed with you and says, “Your hair always smells so good, Mama,” you should be able to melt with emotion without worrying about whether she’s reading at grade level.

Q: Do you think you’re a bad mother?

AW: Well, yes. Of course. I mean, that’s the whole problem. I feel like a bad mother, even when by all reasonable analysis I’m a perfectly fine mother. Hell, I went camping last month with the second grade. Camping. Me. A Jewish American Princess from New Jersey. Camping for me is staying in a Marriott, but I slept on the ground and ate toast burned over an open fire. And had fun.

Q: What is your definition of a good mother?

AW: As one of my interview subjects said, “A Good Mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto her children, is an active and beloved community volunteer. She remembers to make playdates, her children’s clothes fit, she does art projects with them and enjoys all their games. And she is never too tired for sex.”

Q: Okay, so what do you consider the responsible, attainable ideal of a modern mother?

AW: One who loves her kids and does her level best not to damage them in any permanent way. A good mother doesn’t let herself be overcome by guilt when she screws up.

Q: How did your upbringing shape you as a mother?

AW: My mother drilled into me the importance of being a feminist, a woman with her own identity. But perhaps more important, she and my dad modeled a relationship that was entirely unequal… and didn’t work. I knew I wanted something different from what they had. So while I’ve made choices that made her feminist blood boil, I’ve also expected that my husband pull his share of the home and child labor. And that’s made all the difference.

Q: What advice would you give to mothers, today?

AW: Most important, learn to forgive yourself and the other mothers you know. Try to lay off the judgment. Just do your best and consider the rest a small donation on your part to therapists the world over. If we never messed up, what would they charge our children for?

Q: So what’s the snarky answer to why you wrote Bad Mother?

AW: As a kind of f*** you to the insane Urban-Baby type moms who, after my New York Times piece on loving my husband more than my kids, sent me letters saying my children should be taken away from me and/or my husband would leave me for another woman. And especially to the woman on Oprah who leapt across the stage shouting, “Let me at her!” when I walked on that set. Yes, that really happened.

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Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year

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As Ann Lamott writes, in her lovely little journal of her son’s first year, “Maybe if I can learn to breathe and go slower, I can somehow help Sam be spared some of the craziness I had in my life, all that chasing down of these things that I thought would make me okay or would prove that I was okay” (p. 176). A Catholic priest, Tom Weston, advises her:
The first rule… is that you must not have anything wrong with you or anything different. The second ontvx e is that if you do have something wrong with you, you must get over it as soon as possible. The third rule is that if you can’t get over it, you must pretend that you have. The fourth rule is that if you can’t even pretend that you have, you shouldn’t show up. You should stay home, because it’s hard for everyone else to have you around. And the fifth rule is that if you are going to insist on showing up, you should at least have the decency to feel ashamed. (p. 100)
I’m amazed at this woman’s voice. The book exudes deeply spiritual insights, while at the same time laughing at itself and any spiritual over-seriousness. Every time I see this book’s cover, I get a warm feeling remembering it. Grade: A.

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• ISBN13: 9781400079094
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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It’s not like she’s the only woman to ever have a baby. At thirty-five. On her own. But Anne Lamott makes it all fresh in her now-classic account of how she and her son and numerous friends and neighbors and some strangers survived and thrived in that all important first year. From finding out that her baby is a boy (and getting used to the idea) to finding out that her best friend and greatest supporter Pam will die of cancer (and not getting used to that idea), with a generous amount of wit and faith (but very little piousness), Lamott narrates the great and small events that make up a woman’s life.

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The most honest, wildly enjoyable book written about motherhood is surely Anne Lamott’s account of her son Sam’s first year. A gifted writer and teacher, Lamott (Crooked Little Heart) is a single mother and ex-alcoholic with a pleasingly warped social circle and a remarkably tolerant religion to lean on. She responds to the changes, exhaustion, and love Sam brings with aplomb or outright insanity. The book rocks from hilarious to unbearably poignant when Sam’s burgeoning life is played out against a very close friend’s illness. No saccharine paean to becoming a parent, this touches on the rage and befuddlement that dog sweeter emotions during this sea change in one’s life.

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