An introduction to being in business- frankly being in business is bollocks. Really, it is. It's hard yakka, it's frustrating and the pay is usually crap but we keep on at it - why? Because it's what we do and often what is simply expected off us. In the following chapters you will read some personal experiences from people in business that may surprise you. These are business owners who have won numerous business and industry awards. They have dealt with staff, customers, suppliers and ev...

Living with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) can feel like navigating an endless storm, especially when it affects the heart of a family. For a mother and son, this journey becomes a testament to resilience, love, and the unwavering bond they share in facing the invisible demons together. When OCD strikes, it doesn't just impact the person who suffers from it; it infiltrates every corner of life, challenging everything from daily routines to relationships. Yet, through the darkness of i...

Seven years ago, MARSHAL (Marsh) KEENE, lost both legs above the knee after a car accident that killed his parents and sister. A local man, ALLAN WRIGHT was charged with drunk driving, vehicular homicide and sentenced to ten years in jail.Marsh progressed from using a wheelchair to walking with prosthetics and canes, but was forced to leave his dream job as a member of the police force just weeks after graduation. Four years later, he's a journalist for a local newspaper, married t...

#worldsworstmum – you know you are doing it all wrong, but you do it anyway!I wrote this series of stories to highlight something we women do too often. We judge, convict and have thrown the key away on ourselves daily! In the age of Social Media, we are expected to be either perfect or complete trash! Personally I’m neither, although killing my children (or thoughts of) occur daily!I’m boring hence I attracted the name ‘Nanna’. I don’t drink excessively, gave up smoking ma...

During the first few weeks after Matthew Kirk was born -- brain-damaged as a result of oxygen deprivation during delivery -- the doctors advised his parents, Donna and Ed Kirk, to put him in an institution, have another baby as soon as possible, and get on with their life.But what the doctors didn't understand was that Matthew was their life.Indeed, as he grew, he would surprise everyone with his athletic good looks, spirited personality, and supre...

During the first few weeks after Matthew Kirk was born -- brain-damaged as a result of oxygen deprivation during delivery -- the doctors advised his parents, Donna and Ed Kirk, to put him in an institution, have another baby as soon as possible, and get on with their life. But what the doctors didn't understand was that Matthew was their life.Indeed, as he grew, he would surprise everyone with his athletic good looks, spirited personality, and supreme ability to create joy...

First in an all-new trilogy inspired by Isaac Asimov's legendary science fiction collection I, Robot.2035: Susan Calvin is beginning her residency at a Manhattan teaching hospital, where a select group of patients is receiving the latest in diagnostic advancements: tiny nanobots, injected into the spinal fluid, that can unlock and map the human mind.Soon, Susan begins to notice an ominous chain of events surrounding the patients. When she tries to ...

After exhausting their resources in the slums of Los Angeles, a junkie and his wife settle in London's "murder mile," the city's most violent and criminally corrupt section. Persevering past failed treatments, persistent temptation, urban ennui, and his wife's ruinous death wish, the nameless narrator fights to reclaim his life.In prose that could peel paint from a car, Tony O'Neill re-creates the painfully comic, often tragic days of a recovering heroin addict.

- You know the key to having more energy has nothing to do with crystals and chakras... and everything to do with how much sleep you get.- You know that neglecting your friends will leave you destitute and lonely... but you're still too damn lazy to pick up your phone and get in touch.- You know you could get through your to-do list in half the time... yet you're still stalking your ex on Facebook.- You know you just need...

Sixteen women from all walks of life share their stories of widowhood in this "wonderful collection of 'life after loss' experiences" (Natalie Treadwell, founder of Food for Life).When author and life coach Mary Francis found herself widowed at fifty, she turned to other widows for support, understanding, and answers. Now she shares some of the stories that helped her find a new beginning for herself in The Sisterhood of Widows.This powerful book of ...

From an “imaginatively twisted and fearless” writer (Los Angeles Times), a hilarious memoir of middle age.In a voice that is wry, disarming, and totally candid, Sandra Tsing Loh tells the moving and laugh-out-loud tale of her roller coaster through "the change." This is not your grandmother's menopause story. Loh chronicles utterly relatable, everyday perils: raising preteen daughters, weathering hormonal changes, and the ups and downs of a career and a re...

Dark Confessions of an Extraordinary, Ordinary Woman follows the author on her journey from a drug-addicted thief who felt trapped in an abusive relationship to a confident and capable marathon-runner. It is filled with intense drama, troubled romance, and all sorts of dirty little secrets.