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Gettin' Old Ain't for Wimps
Speaker and author Karen O'Connor urges her post-fifty friends to "laugh and love all the way home to the Father's house." With humor and wisdom, Karen shares personal and gathered stories about the blessings of surviving and surpassing middle-age. Gettin' Old Ain't for Wimps overflows with candor and helps the boomin' baby boomer market celebrate with: funny stories of the antics and adventures of getting older "conversations with God" for a deeper prayer life hopeful words for the tough times For those who have already traded in their wimp status for a more courageous existence or those still wondering about the future, this delightful read affirms that the latter decades are filled with God's promises and joys.
365 Senior Moments You'd Rather Forget
Karen O’Connor, bestselling author of Gettin’ Old Ain’t for Wimps (more than 300,000 copies sold), offers a great collection of humorous anecdotes on senior moments. Readers in the better half of life will discover 365 rather funny situations to avoid, with some of them sounding all too familiar. They are encouraged to avoid… leaving the key in the front door and going to sleep feeling secure. purchasing a book to improve your memory but leaving it at the checkout counter. dropping the boat anchor and then realizing it wasn’t tied to the boat. This warmhearted and playful book encourages laughter and taking life in stride.
Soon Come Home to This Island
Soon Come Home to This Island traces the representation of West Indian characters in British children's literature from 1700 to today. This book challenges traditional notions of British children's literature as mono-cultural by illuminating the contributions of colonial and postcolonial-era Black British writers. The author examines the varying depictions of West Indian islands and peoples in a wide range of picture books, novels, textbooks, and popular periodicals published over the course of more than 300 years. An excellent resource for any children's literature student or scholar, the book includes a chronological bibliography of primary source material that includes West Indian characters and twenty black-and-white illustrations that chart the changes in visual representations of West Indians over time.
When God Answers Your Prayers
Inspirational storyteller Karen O'Connor (Gettin' Old Ain't for Wimps, more than 280,000 copies sold) offers a brand-new collection of truth-based vignettes to warm the heart. These upbeat, short stories stimulate faith in God by highlighting His wonderful love and provision--that often seem to come just in the nick of time. Readers will discover God's help and timing are always perfect: a destitute family huddling together for warmth is surprised when an anonymous donor sends furnace fuel a couple ready to divorce encounters an unexpected circumstance that brings them together a job seeker's frustration at being turned down for a dream job turns to joy when a better position becomes available Offering hope and encouragement because God cares, When God Answers Your Prayers reminds readers that their loving heavenly Father is always watching over them.
Help, Lord! I'm Having A Senior Moment
Like it or not, senior moments happen. We might as well laugh about them and thank God for the way they add interest to our lives. After all, what would life be without the cordless phone ringing faintly from where you left it in the fridge? Some senior moments are more heartbreaking or embarrassing than funny. But in every case, we can take them to the Lord who cares for us. This book brings encouragement to people in their golden years. Each of the 90 short pieces contains a note to God about a topic of special interest to seniors, a word from God in Scripture, a prayer and a place for the reader to write his or her note to God.
Restoring Relationships with Your Adult Children
The key to creating closer, more meaningful relationships with grown children, writes O'Connor, is learning to relate to grown children in a new way that is more sensitive than assertive, more spiritual than custodial, more nurturing than managing. Offering parents a second chance, this book presents five steps to healing that will help those who feel guilty, angry, or confused about their relationships with their adult children.
Gendering American Politics
Arguing that the field of women and politics has "come of age" and edited by best-selling author Karen O'Connor, this reader includes both classic and contemporary readings on women and politics and provides students with an understanding of current research in the area, a sense the evolution of the field of women and politics over time, and ideas of where the research is likely to go in the future.
A Kurdish Family
Describes the experiences of one Kurdish family that was driven from their home in northern Iraq and moved to a new life in California.
The Beauty of Aging
Getting older is portrayed in the media as something to dread! We use Botox, color our hair, dress younger, go on special diets...anything we can do to put off the inevitable. But rather than fearing aging, it's time to embrace it, says popular speaker Karen O'Connor. We can handle the aging process and its blessings and burdens with grace, gratitude, and grit! By looking at seven areas of life-faith, family, friends, finances, fitness, food, and fun-O'Connor shows you how getting older can mean getting better! Learn how to "raise your happiness quotient," change your attitude, and discover the delights of being 50-plus.
Let's Take a Walk in the City
Tony uses his five senses to enjoy a walk in the city with his mother.
