Download or read book It s Okay to Cry It s Okay to Laugh It s Okay to Keep on Loving written by Jamie Merrill and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book Jamie and Roxana Merrill lived and loved through ups and downs, joys and sorrows through their twenty-one years together, but nothing prepared them for the Roxana’s multiple myeloma cancer diagnosis. Jamie carries on Roxana’s life and legacy by telling her story, sharing with others her journey, her fight against cancer with dignity and love. With the devastating loss of his wife, Jamie learns how to accept and manage grief. It is okay to be angry. It is okay to find joy again. It is okay to feel what you feel. The most important action to take is placing your best foot forward and complete the story your loved one has begun. For anyone struggling with a loss of a loved one or their own chronic illness, Jamie and Roxana’s story is a heart-wrenching tale, one that is filled with moments of humor and levity alongside the moments of seemingly inescapable grief. Their love story is a reminder to keep living, to keep thriving, and to carry on with your loved one inside your heart. About the Author Jamie Merrill is a sixty-one year old lifelong retail food service operator and consultant who celebrates his colorful past as the stepping stone to getting his life "right" and becoming the man he is today. He is a self-taught bassist and guitar player, with the high point of his performing career being part of the opening act for Pearl Bailey at the old Riverboat Lounge in the Empire State Building. Merrill was born and raised in the Bronx and later relocated to California, where he met Roxana. Roxana has two sons from a previous marriage, and Jamie became a stepfather after their marriage.
Download or read book It s Okay to Laugh written by Nora McInerny Purmort and published by Dey Street Books. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Thank you for the perfect blend of nostalgia-drenched humor, wit, and heartbreak, Nora.” — Mandy Moore comedy = tragedy + time/rosé Twenty-seven-year-old Nora McInerny Purmort bounced from boyfriend to dopey “boyfriend” until she met Aaron—a charismatic art director and comic-book nerd who once made Nora laugh so hard she pulled a muscle. When Aaron was diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer, they refused to let it limit their love. They got engaged on Aaron’s hospital bed and had a baby boy while he was on chemo. In the period that followed, Nora and Aaron packed fifty years of marriage into the three they got, spending their time on what really matters: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, each other, and Beyoncé. A few months later, Aaron died in Nora’s arms. The obituary they wrote during Aaron’s hospice care revealing his true identity as Spider-Man touched the nation. With It’s Okay to Laugh, Nora puts a young, fresh twist on the subjects of mortality and resilience. What does it actually mean to live your “one wild and precious life” to the fullest? How can a joyful marriage contain more sickness than health? How do you keep going when life kicks you in the junk? In this deeply felt and deeply funny memoir, Nora gives her readers a true gift—permission to struggle, permission to laugh, permission to tell the truth and know that everything will be okay. It’s Okay to Laugh is a love letter to life, in all its messy glory; it reads like a conversation with a close friend, and leaves a trail of glitter in its wake. This book is for people who have been through some shit. This is for people who aren’t sure if they’re saying or doing the right thing (you’re not, but nobody is). This is for people who had their life turned upside down and just learned to live that way. For people who have laughed at a funeral or cried in a grocery store. This is for everyone who wondered what exactly they’re supposed to be doing with their one wild and precious life. I don’t actually have the answer, but if you find out, will you text me?
Download or read book Crying Laughing written by Lance Rubin and published by Ember. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tragicomic story of bad dates, bad news, bad performances, and one girl's determination to find the funny in high school from the author of Denton Little's Deathdate. Winnie Friedman has been waiting for the world to catch on to what she already knows: she's hilarious. It might be a long wait, though. After bombing a stand-up set at her own bat mitzvah, Winnie has kept her jokes to herself. Well, to herself and her dad, a former comedian and her inspiration. Then, on the second day of tenth grade, the funniest guy in school actually laughs at a comment she makes in the lunch line and asks her to join the improv troupe. Maybe he's even . . . flirting? Just when Winnie's ready to say yes to comedy again, her father reveals that he's been diagnosed with ALS. That is . . . not funny. Her dad's still making jokes, though, which feels like a good thing. And Winnie's prepared to be his straight man if that's what he wants. But is it what he needs? Caught up in a spiral of epically bad dates, bad news, and bad performances, Winnie's struggling to see the humor in it all. But finding a way to laugh is exactly what will see her through. **A Junior Library Guild Selection**
Download or read book Eat Pray Love written by Elizabeth Gilbert and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2007-03-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Number One international bestseller, Eat, Pray Love is a journey around the world, a quest for spiritual enlightenment and a story for anyone who has battled with divorce, depression and heartbreak.
Download or read book It s Ok Not to Cry written by Gina Schampers and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is never the same from that moment you hear any bad news. The loss of a person, pet, home, relationshipall can be life altering. Finding out how to deal with life in a new way, in a new normal, is the reality of the situation. There is no one right way to grieve. Everyone goes through it differently, and nobody can tell you how to grieve. Nobody can understand what you are going through, and nobody can understand the relationship you had with that person. Life will never be the same. You dont have that person to call when you have a question anymore. They are no longer there to share your funny inside jokes with anymore. Its Ok Not to Cry was written to help others who have gone through a loss. It is not all seriousness and tears. Hopefully it will leave you with a smile.
Download or read book It s Okay to Cry written by Lynne Jasames and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will provide readers with another perspective about how people deal with adversity in their life. The character, Special expressed herself a great deal throughout the book by crying. Crying helped Special heal. Special used crying as a way of lashing out, venting, and releasing stress. The reader will be able to relate to the circumstances and situations that the characters find themselves in. The reader will be able to relate to at least one, if not more, of the emotions expressed in the book. If the reader themselves have not had the experience they will know someone who has. The book expresses how spirituality helped Special get through all the adversity she experienced. Special had determination and the right attitude throughout the book. Special experienced adversity over and over again and held it together for her self and children. Special had her breaking point and still got through. Through talking to her children, family, friends and a therapist she succeeded in not breaking down or giving up. Special reflects back on her adversities and expresses how she made it through and what was going on in her life at that time. In the book several conversations are taking place that allows the reader to think and reflect on. The reader will be calling family and friends striking up conversations after they have read certain chapters or incidents in the book. The reader being able to relate and identify with several incidents and conversations is the main factor of the book. *The names of the characters are very symbolic in the book. Every woman or man has had a BUSTA in his or her life. A Busta that has made him or her cry.
Download or read book Last Lecture written by Perfection Learning Corporation and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book It s OK Little Rain Cloud to Cry written by Charlie Shull and published by Charlie Shull. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children’s picture book about mental health and learning healthy coping skills. Around the whole world, we as humans are hurting right now. Depression, anxiety, fear, and behavioral addictions are all on the rise, and understandably so. Sadly, many of us never saw healthy coping skills modeled by our parents or peers. But how can we, as imperfect people, be good role models? How can we even start such big conversations with our little ones? It all starts with a simple question: how are you feeling today? When you join The Little Rain Cloud community, you are joining a global movement to change the future and make our world a healthier and happier place, simply by making space for emotions. You do not have to be perfect, you just need to share how you feel. Together, the story and song of "It's OK Little Rain Cloud to Cry" help teach kids (and adults too) how to share and cope with their feelings in healthy ways. At first, your kids will see that the Little Rain Cloud is sad, tries to avoid its feelings, and then runs away. But after the Mountain sings the “It’s OK Little Rain Cloud to Cry” song, the Little Rain Cloud shares its feelings and cries through the whole valley, bringing new life and happiness after the rain. You can create your own version of the song, listen to the angelic Charity Waweru singing the "official version" (streaming everywhere), or learn how to play the song yourself using the music lead sheet that is included in the book. Even if you can’t sing, like Charlie the author, try singing this song the next time you feel mad or sad or just a little blue. Gotta watch the book trailer too. It was made by kids for kids so that kids can see their peers modeling healthy coping skills. WARNING: it's absolutely precious so be prepared to laugh, cry, or laugh and cry at the same time. Find it on Charlie's author profile, YouTube, or Instagram. A note from Charlie: We all struggle from time to time, and sadly we often struggle alone in silence. I do not know what keeps us silent, but I do know that it’s OK to cry. I hope through this book we all can learn to cry and laugh with the ones we love a little more often.
Download or read book Remember to Love written by Gery Ohanian and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: KARO SEROVIAN, ALONG WITH HIS MOTHER AND FATHER, MIGRATE TO AMERICA FROM ARMENIA IN SEARCH OF THE AMERICAN DREAM. BUT SOMEHOW KARO FINDS HIMSELF ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE LAW WHILE HE CONSTANTLY STRUGGLS WITH HIS DESIRE TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT, BUT OFTENTIMES FALLING SHORT OF HIS INTENDED GOAL. MEET KYRA, KAROS YOUNGER SISTER WHO IDOLIZES KARO, BUT AS SOMETIMES HAPPENS WITH FAMILIES AND THE PASSAGE OF TIME, THEY FIND THEMSELVES AT ODDS WITH EACH OTHER AND HOW THEYVE CHOSEN TO LIVE THEIR LIVES. WILL KARO EVER FIND HIS PURPOSE IN LIFE? WILL KYRA EVER FIND IT IN HER HEART TO FORGIVE KARO HIS FAILINGS? COME ALONG ON THIS JOURNEY OF LOVE, FRIENDSHIP, TRAGEDY AND THE HOPE OF REDEMPTION AS THE SEROVIAN SAGA UNFOLDS.
Download or read book It s Better to Laugh Than to Cry written by John Seland and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-04-19 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s better to laugh than to cry. Many years ago, when I was a college student, I took a job peddling mail during the Christmas holidays. One day, as I was passing out the mail, one of the recipients invited me to step into his house for a second or two in order to warm up. “You’ll do a much better job,” he said, “if you rest and warm up for a few minutes.” However, as soon as I entered, his wife approached with three tall glasses of port wine. Not wanting to refuse their kindness, I accepted the offer and drank the wine. How I managed to distribute the rest of the mail to all the other homes along my route is due—I am convinced—to the grace of the almighty God. One of the stories, “The Mail Must Go Through,” will tell you what happened after I drank that tall glass of delicious port wine. As time went on, I began to add more stories, all of them humorous, with the simple purpose of stimulating the reader’s sense of humor. May you enjoy reading the stories as much as I enjoyed writing them.
Download or read book Inside Jokes written by Matthew M. Hurley and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-02-08 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evolutionary and cognitive account of the science behind why we crack up—“one of the most complex and sophisticated humor theories ever presented” (Evolutionary Psychology). Some things are funny—jokes, puns, sitcoms, Charlie Chaplin, The Far Side, Malvolio with his yellow garters crossed—but why? Why does humor exist in the first place? Why do we spend so much of our time passing on amusing anecdotes, making wisecracks, watching The Simpsons? In Inside Jokes, Matthew Hurley, Daniel Dennett, and Reginald Adams offer an evolutionary and cognitive perspective. Humor, they propose, evolved out of a computational problem that arose when our long-ago ancestors were furnished with open-ended thinking. Mother Nature—aka natural selection—cannot just order the brain to find and fix all our time-pressured misleaps and near-misses. She has to bribe the brain with pleasure. So we find them funny. This wired-in source of pleasure has been tickled relentlessly by humorists over the centuries, and we have become addicted to the endogenous mind candy that is humor.
Download or read book Hyperbole and a Half written by Allie Brosh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times Bestseller “Funny and smart as hell” (Bill Gates), Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half showcases her unique voice, leaping wit, and her ability to capture complex emotions with deceptively simple illustrations. FROM THE PUBLISHER: Every time Allie Brosh posts something new on her hugely popular blog Hyperbole and a Half the internet rejoices. This full-color, beautifully illustrated edition features more than fifty percent new content, with ten never-before-seen essays and one wholly revised and expanded piece as well as classics from the website like, “The God of Cake,” “Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving,” and her astonishing, “Adventures in Depression,” and “Depression Part Two,” which have been hailed as some of the most insightful meditations on the disease ever written. Brosh’s debut marks the launch of a major new American humorist who will surely make even the biggest scrooge or snob laugh. We dare you not to. FROM THE AUTHOR: This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. I tried to write a long, third-person summary that would imply how great the book is and also sound vaguely authoritative—like maybe someone who isn’t me wrote it—but I soon discovered that I’m not sneaky enough to pull it off convincingly. So I decided to just make a list of things that are in the book: Pictures Words Stories about things that happened to me Stories about things that happened to other people because of me Eight billion dollars* Stories about dogs The secret to eternal happiness* *These are lies. Perhaps I have underestimated my sneakiness!
Download or read book It s Ok Not To Cry written by Gina Schampers and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is never the same from that moment you hear any bad news. The loss of a person, pet, home, relationship-all can be life altering. Finding out how to deal with life in a new way, in a "new normal," is the reality of the situation. There is no one right way to grieve. Everyone goes through it differently, and nobody can tell you how to grieve. Nobody can understand what you are going through, and nobody can understand the relationship you had with that person. Life will never be the same. You don't have that person to call when you have a question anymore. They are no longer there to share your funny inside jokes with anymore. It's Ok Not to Cry was written to help others who have gone through a loss. It is not all seriousness and tears. Hopefully it will leave you with a smile.
Download or read book It s Ok to Laugh written by Nora McInerny Purmort and published by Dey Street Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forever and Always My Love written by Renee Barton and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-09-14 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With having the love of her life back, how will Renee deal with all the new changes and challenges that have followed along with it? Her world has been completely changed within the blink of an eye more than once, and she has been finding out more about her own self as time goes by. So many unanswered questions just keep piling up because how in the world did she become the beast that she is, and why have the gods chosen her out of everyone in the world to be this special someone? How will she explain her youthfulness to her mortal family while they grow older and she doesn't? It's a struggle that she must deal with on a daily basis because the answers to all these questions, and many more, haven't been revealed just yet! The saga continues, and the only way to find out what happens next is to keep reading!
Download or read book Healing I AM written by Brenda Zyburt and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Healing of I AM Presence teaches you to understand the daily connection with the Omni Presence, your Spiritual Team, and your Higher Self. It also teaches how to self-heal with spirit and to understand you are a spiritual being that has a physical experience and that you should never forget you are one with the Omni Presence. You are so powerful, and it is your birthright to know who you are, from where you have come, and to where you will return. This book is written with the Omni Presence, the Cosmos and my Spiritual Team in order to teach humanity what has taken place upon Earth at all spiritual levels—from the darkest to the lightest—to enlighten your soul. This book aims to show you the 12 physical realms of the Universe, the 12 spiritual realms of Heaven, and the energy at each level. There are over 233 pictures of my Spiritual Team to teach you to understand and believe in what you cannot see, to help you open to the Omni Presence and our higher realms, and to return to who you truly are as a spiritual being from the heavenly realms. “I AM grounded, I AM light, and I AM love with peace in my heart and gratitude in my heart for all. Let the love and light shine through to all on the planet Earth,” said the Omni Presence. A journey with the Cosmos and our Celestial Angelic Guides is life changing and emotional. Once you read this book you will never be the same; you will awaken. Visit Brenda online at www.BrendaZyburt.com
Download or read book Hiding in America written by Pierce Kelley and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a sequel to the award-winning Massacre at Sirte. It is the third book in a five-book series, which involves the slaughter of Coptic Christians by ISIS in Sirte, Libya, in 2015. In this book, Mekhaeil Zacharias, a sixteen-year-old Copt who was spared by ISIS, travels to New York City, with assistance from Egyptian countrymen, to hide from them, since they now wish to find and kill him. Mekhaeil is dazzled by the bright lights of the city, as well as a beautiful nineteen-year-old Muslim girl, living a lie, and loses his moral compass. Is he still a Coptic Christian? Or has he become someone else? He questions his religious beliefs and his purpose in life.
