Download or read book Seasoned Wives written by Marilynn H. Rison and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It takes an awful lot of perseverance to be married to a football coachjust ask Mallory Lassiter. She signed up for marriage, but she didnt see the fine print, a pigskin invasion. Managing endless weeks with no weekend, the industry expectations for wives, disruptive family relocations for the next coaching job, and politics that bite. Mallory has to make a decision. Will she stick it out and be a coachs wife, or will she end the madness? Mallory's path meets with that of several women who walk in similar shoes. Her close friend Shelley opts to stay behind with her extended family support when her coach husband Brian makes the next move, but does the distance between them grow beyond geography? Didi stood by her man while raising their five children, but has she cheated herself by enduring his cheating? Ellen the veteran has played the game well at the cost of hiding serious skeletons in the closet. Tough love vs. tender hearts in this life-like glimpse into these game-changing relationships.
Download or read book Sex and the Seasoned Woman written by Gail Sheehy and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007-01-30 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experience. . . . She can be alternately sweet, tart, bubbly, mellow. She can be maternal and playful. Bossy and submissive. Strong and soft. . . . The seasoned woman knows who she is. She could be any one of us, as long as she is committed to living fully and passionately in the second half of life. In her most groundbreaking work since Passages and The Silent Passage, bestselling author Gail Sheehy reveals a hidden cultural phenomenon–increased vitality in women’s sex and love lives after fifty. Sex and the Seasoned Woman is the story of an intimate revolution taking place under our very noses. Boomer generation women in midlife are open to sex, love, dating, new dreams, exploring spirituality, and revitalizing their marriages as never before. This is a new universe of passionate, liberated women–married and single–who are unwilling to settle for the stereotypical roles of middle age and are now realizing they don’t have to. As life spans grow longer and as societal constraints continue to loosen, older women–once free of the exhausting demands of young children, needy husbands, and demanding careers–find themselves ready to pursue the passionate life. They embrace their “second adulthood” as a period of reawakening. Written in Sheehy’s singularly compelling style, combining interviews and research, this book gives voice to more than a hundred fascinating and colorful women. The inspiring stories tell of wives who reinvigorate their marriages after their children leave the nest as well as divorced, widowed, and long-single women who find new dreams and new loves. Sheehy delineates a crucial link between cultivating a new dream and reopening the pathway to intimacy and sexual pleasure. She also examines the latest medical breakthroughs addressing symptoms that have unnecessarily curtailed women’s sex lives. From women who find their sexuality reawakened by a younger lover, to couples whose marriages survive health crises and grow stronger, to women who finally find a soulmate in their sixties, to stories from seasoned sirens in their seventies, eighties, and even nineties, these portraits cover an enormous range of experience. In them, Sheehy locates the universal patterns that enable us all to recognize and understand our own lives.
Download or read book Adorned written by Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OVER 100,000 COPIES SOLD! Winner of the 2018 Christian Book Award® (Bible Study Category) Known for her wisdom, warmth, and knowledge of Scripture, Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth has encouraged millions through her books, radio programs, and conferences. Now she’s back with a legacy work on Titus 2 and its powerful vision for women: Woman to woman. Older to younger. Day to day. Life to life. This is God’s beautiful plan. The Titus 2 model of older women living out the gospel alongside younger women is vital for us all to thrive. It is mutually strengthening, glorifies God, and makes His truth believable to our world. Imagine older women investing themselves in the lives of younger women, blessing whole families and churches. Imagine young wives, moms, and singles gaining wisdom and encouragement from women who’ve been there and have found God’s ways to be true and good. Imagine all women—from older women to young girls—living out His transforming gospel together, growing the entire body of Christ to be more beautiful. This is Christian community as God designed it. Read this book and take your relationships to new depths, that your life might find its fullest meaning as you adorn the gospel of Christ.
Download or read book The Wives written by Simone Gorrindo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Simone] Gorrindo’s prose is inviting and fluid, and her storytelling is intimate and vivid...[an] engaging, evocative memoir.” —The New York Times Book Review “A hopeful, unifying memoir.” —People This profoundly intimate memoir about marriage, friendship, and the power of human connection tells the story of one woman’s experience of joining a community of army wives after leaving her New York City job. When her new husband joins an elite Army unit, Simone Gorrindo is uprooted from New York City and dropped into Columbus, Georgia. With her husband frequently deployed, Simone is left to find her place in this new world, alone—until she meets the wives. Gorrindo gives us an intimate look into the inner lives of a remarkable group of women and a tender, unflinching portrait of a marriage. A love story, an unforgettable coming-of-age tale, and a bracing tour of the intractable divisions that plague our country today, The Wives offers a rare and powerful gift: a hopeful stitch in the fabric of a torn America.
Download or read book Inside The Honeycomb written by Robert E. Harris and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Honeycomb was a lucrative Salon/Academy School sitting in the heart of Atlanta. It was one of the biggest hair and beauty schools that not only carried Hair Stylist and Barbers but the Honeycomb supplied the beauty products and a Sauna and Massage Parlor. The Honeycomb also carried a Nail and Pedicure Studio. Mr. Jack and his longtime mistress slash business partner Francine were very successful in pursuing their dream. Then here comes someone who speaks a cursed through the atmosphere. Not only did it wreck the Honeycomb but the lives of Joanna, Venice and some of the others. Come see how this curse unwinds and untangle itself in the Honeycomb.
Download or read book What Seasoned Women Have That Everyone Needs written by Brian Smith and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short book is, before anything else, a celebration of the Seasoned Woman. She is a treasure of wisdom and grace who needs to be observed for her beauty and for the abundance of sagacity and benevolence she has quietly demonstrated to those willing to open their eyes and observe. It is she and her students who have kept humanity's careening ship, often manned by drunken sailors, afloat. It is she who has historically been most responsible for the proper nurturing of the hearts, minds, and spirits of both males and females as they have grown and evolved in a world fraught with physical, intellectual, and moral dangers. Of course, the book generalizes. Not every word applies to every seasoned female on the planet. But the model and the true examples are familiar to all of us because the Seasoned Woman has been our mother, grandmother, sister, lover, or friend. We are arguably living in the most dangerous time in human history. We are destroying the earth that sustains us, ignoring the pollutants and microbes that may decimate us, building the machines that have the capability to extinct us, and reveling in the societal and political animosities that harden our hearts and souls to it all. Frankly, most of this is the legacy of a ubiquitous succession of patriarchies that have produced a rather prickly world for most of it's human inhabitants and an existentially dangerous world for all of us. So now, in a time when women of all ages are asserting themselves with increasing power and are being listened to in ways that are long overdue, this short book offers a heartfelt, often poetic celebration of who the Seasoned Woman has been and is and the place she ought to take in our hearts, minds, and spirits - and the exigencies of our daily lives. After an introduction and a chapter on how the Seasoned Woman is perceived and misperceived, Chapter Two looks at who she actually is. It looks at the value of her experiences and what she has learned from them. It ends, as do all of the succeeding chapters, with specific and practical lessons the rest of us may want to incorporate into our own lives.Chapter Three talks about the heart of the Seasoned Woman. It discusses the qualities of love and compassion and the benefits of understanding and practicing it. These concepts are illustrated by a few poems and a number of true anecdotes. Throughout the chapter, the moral imperative of being guided by our hearts is emphasized.Chapter Four discusses the mind of the Seasoned Woman. Intellectual curiosity, lifelong learning, and true enlightenment are discussed. Right Opinion is contrasted with True Knowledge. The basic metaphysical question, "What is real?" is asked. It will not be surprising to anyone who has been guided by one or more Seasoned Women that the answers to this question present themselves most clearly when the mind and the heart collaborate in the search for meaning. Chapter Five examines the spirit of the Seasoned Woman. More true anecdotes illustrate the patience, passion, and power of her spirit. The text explores her understanding of compassion and how it is related to her own autonomy and to the autonomy of those she touches. The chapter ends with a discussion of the now in which the Seasoned Woman has learned to live.Chapter Six deals with the body of the Seasoned Woman and how even her physicality is misperceived and underappreciated. It explores the artificial and unnatural expectations fabricated by individuals, industries, and corporations pushing highly profitable but often ludicrously synthetic solutions to perceived problems. The physical beauty of the Seasoned Woman is juxtaposed with our culture's protean and preposterous preoccupation with the deification and exploitation of the nymph. Chapter Seven explores the sexuality of the Seasoned Woman. Spoiler alert: She's the best!
Download or read book Inarticulate Longings written by Jennifer Scanlon and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inarticulate Longings explores the contradictions of a social agenda for women that promoted both traditional roles and the promises of a growing consumer culture by examining the advertising industry in the early 20th century.
Download or read book When We Liked Ike written by Barbara P. Norfleet and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographer herself, Norfleet is founder and curator of The Photography Collection at Harvard University, which emphasizes the social history of the US. She tries to put out a book a year, with photographs not used in a previous one. Here she illustrates with informal and advertising photographs the self-image of America's white middle class during the 1950s as comparative affluence, moral superiority, and contentment. They are accompanied by period quotations. c. Book News Inc.
Download or read book The Baker s Boy written by J. V. Jones and published by Aspect. This book was released on 2000-12-15 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melliandra, forced into a betrothal with a sinister prince, flees Castle Harvell with Jack, a kitchen apprentice with an uncontrolled power to work miracles. The Book of Words is a new fantasy adventure series featuring lethal conspiracies.
Download or read book Women s Political Voice written by Janet A. Flammang and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Male Daughters Female Husbands written by Professor Ifi Amadiume and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1987, more than a decade before the dawn of queer theory, Ifi Amadiume wrote Male Daughters, Female Husbands, to critical acclaim. This compelling and highly original book frees the subject position of 'husband' from its affiliation with men, and goes on to do the same for other masculine attributes, dislocating sex, gender and sexual orientation. Boldly arguing that the notion of gender, as constructed in Western feminist discourse, did not exist in Africa before the colonial imposition of a dichotomous understanding of sexual difference, Male Daughters, Female Husbands examines the structures in African society that enabled people to achieve power, showing that roles were not rigidly masculinized nor feminized. At a time when gender and queer theory are viewed by some as being stuck in an identity-politics rut, this outstanding study not only warns against the danger of projecting a very specific, Western notion of difference onto other cultures, but calls us to question the very concept of gender itself.
Download or read book On the Picket Line written by Mary Eleanor Triece and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working-class women's creative challenges to oppressive gender norms and workplace discrimination
Download or read book War on Two Fronts written by Christopher Hughes and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2007-11-30 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid memoir of the conflict’s early years combined with “an insightful review of our problems in Iraq” (Publishers Weekly). Winner of The Army Historical Foundation’s Distinguished Writing Award. Shortly after the launch of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the war in Iraq became the most confusing in US history, the high command not knowing who to fight, who was attacking coalition troops, and who among the different Iraqi groups were fighting each other. Yet there were a few astute officers like Lt. Col. Christopher Hughes, commanding the 2nd Battalion of the 327th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne, who sensed the complexity of the task from the beginning. In War on Two Fronts, Lt. Col. Hughes writes movingly of his “no-slack” battalion at war in Iraq. The war got off to a bang for Hughes when his brigade command tent was fragged, leaving him briefly in charge of the brigade. Amid the nighttime confusion of fourteen casualties, a nearby Patriot missile blasted off, panicking nearly everyone while mistakenly bringing down a British Tornado fighter-bomber. As Hughes’ battalion forged into Iraq, they successfully liberated the city of Najaf, securing the safety of Grand Ayatollah Sistani and the Mosque of Ali while showing an acute cultural awareness that caught the world’s attention. It was a feat that landed Hughes within the pages of Time, Newsweek, and other publications. The Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne then implemented creative programs in the initial postwar occupation, including harvesting the national wheat and barley crops while combating nearly invisible insurgents. Conscious that an army battalion is a community of some seven-hundred-plus households, and that when a unit goes off to war, the families are intimately connected in our internet age, Hughes makes clear the strength of those connections and how morale is best supported at both ends. Transferred to Washington after his tour, Hughes also writes an illuminating account of the herculean efforts of many in the Pentagon to work around the corporatist elements of its bureaucracy in order to better understand counterinsurgency and national reconstruction, which Lawrence of Arabia described as “like learning to eat soup with a knife.” This book helps explain the sources of mistakes made—and the process needed to chart a successful strategy. Written with candor and no shortage of humor, mixed with brutal scenes of combat and frank analysis, it is a must-read for all who seek insight into our current situation in the Mideast.
Download or read book Encompassing Gender written by Mary M. Lay and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2002 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Beijing to Seattle, women's movements within academe and in local-global communities are growing at an unprecedented rate, raising pointed questions about paradigms of Western feminism, development, global trade, and scholarship. Despite this growing visibility, the perspectives of far too many women, especially from the Global South, are still excluded from mainstream U.S. scholarship. Presented with the task of preparing students for life in this new and rapidly shrinking world, many scholars have found themselves overwhelmed by the need to cross disciplinary and geographic borders. But some faculty are leading the way -- often in defiance of academic traditions and prejudices -- to a curriculum that reflects consequences of globalization. Encompassing Gender is the long-awaited anthology of more than 40 essays by 60 scholars, many of them working in curriculum-transformation groups that cut across the humanities, the sciences, and the social sciences, all of them committed to an interdisciplinary approach to internationalizing the curriculum.
Download or read book Lessons Learned as a Daughter of the King written by Larissa Dayana Jean and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2023-12-27 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a woman, you wear many hats in life. However, before you’re a wife, a mother, a sister, an aunt, a friend, or even a grandmother, you’re a daughter first. And because of your relationship with God, through Jesus Christ, you’re a daughter of the King! God Almighty, the Creator of Heaven and Earth, desires to father you. Author Larissa Dayana Jean shares that when you anchor your life on your identity in Christ, your life will never be the same. In her sophomore project, Lessons Learned as a Daughter of the King, she offers the greatest lessons about how her identity as a daughter of the King has transformed her life, and has deepened her personal relationship with God. Larissa encourages all women, whether single or married, to grab hold of this truth, walk in their royal identity, and allow the God of Heaven and Earth to truly father them in every season of life.
Download or read book The Married Woman written by Gladys Hoagland Groves and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 20 21 20 YEARS OF WAR FROM MY EYES written by Victoria Gomez and published by Writers Republic LLC. This book was released on 2022-01-14 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victoria Gomez is a Filipina-American, military brat, born in Fayetteville, North Carolina. She’s the proud wife of a soldier and mother of three, bright and amazing, young men. Victoria has a multi-faceted resume: U.S. Army veteran, Pentagon policy writer, fitness instructor, substitute teacher, mental health therapist, Department of the Army equipment distribution analyst, NCAA recruiting compliance specialist, unit volunteer, team mom, coach, and university enrollment counselor. She’s an avid journal keeper, lover of languages and cultures, car karaoke singer, selfie-taker, work-outaholic, and traveler. She enjoys writing whenever she can, mostly in the early hours when the world is asleep or in the carpool line, since time is typically constrained by work-life-balance. She’s often seen watching and listening, writing in her journal, taking notes in her car, at a football game, or in a restaurant. She loves deeper and laughs louder than most, and seeks every opportunity to make the ordinary extraordinary. She loves the beach, good food, football, and her family. She calls the world home, but now parks her gypsy van in Leawood.
