About Heartaches and Blessing While Parenting my Mom
Letty’s mother was intelligent, down-to-earth, outspoken and clear-headed-a loving mother to her five children and a hardworking, successful schoolteacher. However, after her mother suffered several small, debilitating strokes, Letty, a senior citizen, found herself in the position of having to parent her own mother.
But in the midst of the heartache, frustrations, misunderstandings and emotional exhaustion, Letty began to recognize and accept the challenge of her new role. Instead of just heartaches, she discovered the blessings of her unchartered role-reversal, including a new understanding of herself and her world as well as the opportunity for self-growth.
In touching diary entries chronicling her experience intertwined with accounts of her mother’s life from the 1930s through the present day, Heartaches and Blessings while Parenting My Mom is an engaging, humorous tribute that provides support, empowerment and encouragement to adult caretakers.
About Putting Tabby Down
The death of a pet is one of the most traumatic events that can happen to a child. Putting Tabby Down is a sensitive new children’s book that handles this difficult subject at a level that children can understand.
Four-year-old Jenna loves her family cat named Tabby. One day, the 18-year-old cat begins acting weirdly and can’t walk properly. After taking Tabby to the vet, Jenna and her mother get the bad news that Tabby is very sick and needs to be put down.
Putting Tabby Down shows how a young child learns to say goodbye to a beloved pet.