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Single Parents Can WIN With Money!Being a single parent is really tough. I know that first-hand. And I also know what it feels like to worry about not having enough money to pay the rent, or put food on the table. I'll never forget how it felt to stand in line at the grocery story, and wonder how I would pay for the food that my children needed.When I was growing up, my parents thought they were teaching me about money. They taught me how to balance a checkbook, but I never learned how to make sure I was spending less than I made.I needed a plan.In Show Your Paycheck Who's Boss, we cover financial topics that are specific to single parents. Do you pay or receive child support? How should you handle paying for birthday and holiday gifts? What if your kids just want to eat pizza all the time?Along with practical advice about getting rid of debt and saving for emergencies and retirement, we've included three planners:Mindful Positivity PlannerCareer Planner100 Day Action PlanSingle parents really can be successful financially - and you can teach your kids how to do it, too!

It's never too late to have the adventure of a lifetimeWith her 70th birthday looming, Lauren Hillard is constantly thinking that there has to be an easier way. She has long felt that her family has simply stowed her away like a precious heirloom. She's had it - she is done.Lauren makes the snap decision to quit managing her daughter's psychotherapist office and answer the call to adventure. It is a risk, she knows. But a risk she is more than willing to take.She would move to Mexico - it's affordable and exotic. Exotic, like the much younger David Escobar, attorney/former criminal, who informs her that a woman must be brave, smart, and very impulsive to get herself into as much danger as she has.Lauren has to ask herself if it is wise to continue to answer calls from a treacherous family member who wants to have her committed, a ruthless organ harvester, and her captivating, but high-risk, attorney.

Everyone is afraid of something.For April Grace, it's mice with scritchy toenails. For her sister ... well, Myra Sue is afraid of so many things, April Grace has trouble remembering them all. Read what happens when being fraidy-cats and getting even can turn a nice summer day into a misadventure neither girl expected.Book Two in the Misadventures of April Grace series is full of fun and mischief! Return to the 1980s with April Grace and her family, and live life on the farm with them in the Ozarks.

Award-Winning Collection of Stories That Grapple With What It Means to BelongHome is a Made-Up Place invites readers into the lives of people grappling with emotional injuries and confronting the past to become who they wish to be.Set in NYC, New England, the Southwest, and rural Alaska, a single mother fights to protect her son, a daughter tries to forget her missing mother, a couple struggles to keep a marriage together and their children safe, and a family must face the truth about their father.Bracing and intimate, Home is a Made-Up Place is a collection of stories about fighting for personal power, recognizing the difference between what can and cannot be changed, and the pull of familial attachments despite the toll they might take.

Let's Put Humanity Back Into PoliticsAmerican citizens are politically divided today like no other time in recent history. We are fighting with our neighbors, our friends, and our family members.In How People Get Their Politics - Conversations with Americans About the Experiences that Shaped Their Political Beliefs author Julie Samrick talks with sixteen Americans to delve into their lives and backgrounds, and discuss what happened in their childhoods that formed their political opinions.During these conversations, Julie talks with:ImmigrantsWar veteransCancer survivorsDemocratsRepublicansIndependentsThe ages of the interviewees range from early twenties to over eighty. They all provide personal and candid interviews that are filled with emotion.Instead of fighting about politics, we should be asking, "How did my friend, my neighbor, my family member, my co-worker, my acquaintance on Facebook, form this opinion? I should have a conversation with this person and get to know them better."Julie's goal is to bring the humanity back into politics. Our country should be united and accepting of one another and not so deeply divided.#NotRightNotWrong#PutHumanityBackIntoPolitics#BothCanBeTrue#HearMeUnderstandMe

April Grace is BACK!An accident on the road. An unexpected wedding announcement.A slew of long-term, noisy wedding guests who prefer sports to romance and who take over the house. A cheesy looking school bus parked in the driveway, and messy malodorous malarkey coming from everywhere.A new friend who isn't what she seems, and another who is more than April Grace could hope for.The summer of 1987 at the Reilly home is off to a rousing, hilarious start as April Grace continues to chronicle life on Rough Creek Road.

The eyes may be said to be the scouts of the heart, but these two rebellious hearts might as well be blind.In January of 1917, young Piedad Arellano is riding the streetcar across the Santa Fe Bridge that connects Juarez, Mexico to El Paso where she works as a housemaid. When she learns El Paso is using kerosene and toxic chemicals to "treat" workers for suspected lice, she takes a stand and says, No! Thousands join her in the protest, shutting down bridge traffic and making international news.Walter Stevenson is an agent with the newly formed Bureau of Investigation, on a mission to identify the "master spy" being handled by the precursor of the Nazi party there in El Paso.Their two worlds collide when Piedad is arrested for inciting the Bath Riots and Walt reluctantly comes to her aid. No two lovers were ever more mismatched. Spies are pursued, dark family secrets are revealed, and romance may be possible in this historical novel based on the true events of the Bath Riots.

"If your father practiced medicine the way you dance, he'd be under a million lawsuits."That's what Miss Lorraine used to tell Kara as a young dancer in between yelling, "Put your heels down!" In dance, criticism is considered a compliment, so as a young dancer with short Achilles tendons, tight hamstrings, and knobby knees she fancied herself a star. Thirty years of leotards and tights later, she had to face some hard truths. Maybe she wasn't a dancer after all. After graduating from a top conservatory and embarking on her Martha Graham dreams, Kara reluctantly chose to teach Pilates to pay the bills. After initially failing her certification thanks to a nasty margarita hangover, she became one of the most sought after Pilates instructors in Manhattan. She cracked herself up, with what could only be described as Pilates stand-up, poking fun at high maintenance clients and gym culture. But, after hitting many unexpected speed bumps in her dance career, what started as a nothing day job had become her everything. And it wasn't funny anymore. Underneath that peppy six-pack Pilates persona was a sad little girl fighting for her dream. Putting My Heels Down exposes the harsh realities of life as a dancer but more importantly, the conflict so many of us experience between having a day job and having a dream. You won't need to know about pliés to relate.

From somewhere among the colony of North Carolina's Gaelic gentry, twenty-five-year-old backwoodsman Jacob Dare is determined to find a young woman to recreate the home that his father's Dare Castle must have been. She would have to be well bred, well read, and gifted with the ability to turn the primitive into the palatial. If she Is favorable to look upon and sweetly dispositioned, that would be even better. That she could ever come to love him is irrelevant.The Lady Catriona Kilcairn is desperately seeking to save her familial colonial home from 1776's bloodthirsty insurrectionists, demanding she take the American Oath of Allegiance. Marriage with the backwoods oaf Jacob Dare is her only immediate option, and a most objectionable one, given that her love and loyalty belong to the Sassenach of her youth, the aristocratic Barrett Fairfax.Yet, as the famous Scotsman Sir Walter Scott warned, "Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!"