Home Development

Kathy Izard was a graphic designer, wife, mother of four daughters, and volunteer at Charlotte’s Urban Ministry Center when an unlikely meeting with formerly homeless author Denver Moore changed the course of her life. Inspired by Denver’s challenge to do more than serve in this soup kitchen, Kathy quit her job to take on what seemed like an unimaginable task in her second half of life - to build housing for Charlotte’s homeless.

In a perfect world, our dreams would have kept us together. "You are my dream," he said to me... But in our world, dreams tore us apart. I ran away from that life. I threw us away... And my choice broke him. A message from beyond the grave would obliterate my world: "You chose wrong." These words would haunt me, telling me that everything I'd worked so hard for was wrong. I chose independence. "You chose wrong." I chose a career. "You chose wrong." And now, how do I keep running...when all roads are leading me home!

Filled with actual stories of life in the military, this encouraging book provides helpful guidance to families on active duty and insight to their extended families, friends, and churches. From her perspective as the wife of an Air Force pilot and mom with five school-age kids, the author includes practical ideas on how to cope with frequent moves, pre-deployment readiness, and how to stay in touch when families are separated.

Letters from Home lays out a bold, no-nonsense approach to raising grateful kids who aspire to something higher than behaving badly on a reality show, actually talk to you in person instead of texting your phone, and understand that the world revolves around something other than them.

The experience of the Vietnam War is almost impossible to grasp - the fear, smell, pain, and camaraderie. Boys were turned into men, men were transformed into soldiers, and then from soldiers to warriors. These warriors had wives who shared in their transformations. Some marriages were strengthened, while for others men and their families were left emotionally and spiritually battered. Focusing in on a singular company’s experience of war and its eventual homecoming, Andrew Wiest discusses the shared experience of combat and both the darkness and resiliency of war’s aftermath.

Forty million Americans use some kind of online dating service and that number keeps rising. Every day online daters are defrauded out of tens of thousands of dollars by romance scammers. But did you know there is a new type of scammer you need to be educated about? Homegrown Romance Scams is written by an ex-scammer who will teach you everything you need to know about these scams.

The author of Homeschooling Is the New Millennium presents a brand new idea that should have taken off years ago to help you do just that, all while adding peace of mind and family time to your daily routine. Homeschooling is the safest and most stress-free way to approach everyday educational needs. Imagine perfect grades enabling you to be an honor roll college bound student from the comfort of your own home!

The popularity of home education is growing. From 2007 to 2013, the number of students who were homeschooled increased 17%, according to National Center for Education Statistics Report. A little over 2.2 million children are educated at home, cites the National Home Education Research Institute.

Estrategias para balancear tu vida y hacer que el trabajo en casa funcione a tu favor. Estrategias para mantener la productividad, la creatividad y el equilibrio mientras trabajas desde casa.

This book is a poignant, funny, and practical survival guide on how to cope with the isolation-at-home aspect of the crisis. While nothing about people being sick and dying is humorous, of course, we all need distractions so we don't lose our minds. This book provides tips and advice on productive ways to spend your time, rather than wasting it. No one wants to wake up one day in August and say, "Gee, if only I had done something useful with those four months I was stuck at home."

Regardless of where your suitcase goes next, you can cultivate a feeling of home in the place it matters most - yourself. How do you navigate the changes that come with moving across the country, or perhaps perpetually around the globe? While #digitalnomad posts on Instagram may show the glamorous side of traveling somewhere new, the reality is often one of loneliness, alienation, and internal struggle. When Rachael left Toronto for Dubai, it was supposed to be the place where everything finally came together.

A great many of you may be working at home due to the global pandemic. I hope sharing the benefit of my 20 years of experience will help you work through this challenge. Nearly every time I tell someone that I work from home, they say that they could never do that. They would not get any work done. Yet there is a way to do it. You must change your perspective by separating your work life and home life while you do both in the place that you live. You will do your job and be content in your home, if you adopt the method I am going lay out in this audiobook.

Decluttering and minimalism emphasize finding happiness via exploring life, interacting with your loved ones, and, most of all, by focusing upon creating a state of mind that makes you happy. Uncover the incredible, life-affirming benefits of decluttering in this audiobook.

This workbook is designed for people who smoke and are thinking about stopping. It includes important practical information about nicotine and cigarette addiction, plus home hypnosis, visualization, and mindfulness exercises. This is the audio version of the book. A kindle version is also available, with the hypnosis and mindfulness exercises printed in italics, if you prefer to record them yourself.

You've heard all about it in recent years - the number of stay-at-home dads in North America just keeps climbing, gender roles are evolving, and the traditional family unit will never be the same. The media loves to spit out endless stats and numbers, while trying to make sense of the broader effects on society at large. But, what all of these news stories are missing is a truly honest and entertaining perspective of an experienced stay-at-home father, and his decade-long journey from a typical working stiff to an atypical house husband.

Yo también sufrí lo mismo que tú, también perdí a mi pastor alemán y sé por lo que estás pasando. Por eso he creado este audiolibro desde mi experiencia vital, y desde ahí se que puedo ayudarte porque te entiendo mejor que nadie. Así que no dudes en escuchar este audiolibro y déjame acompañarte en tu camino de superación. Este audiolibro es para todas aquellas personas que han sufrido la muerte de su perro o mascota recientemente y están sumergidas en el dolor por su pérdida.

Women in today's advanced capitalist societies are encouraged to "lean in." The media and government champion women's empowerment. In a cultural climate where women can seemingly have it all, why do so many successful professional women - lawyers, financial managers, teachers, engineers, and others - give up their careers after having children and become stay-at-home mothers? How do they feel about their decision and what do their stories tell us about contemporary society?

When Michael and Cheryl Morse slowly drifted apart amid an empty nest, her diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, his symptoms of PTSD, and the grief of losing their two beloved dogs put down on the same day three years prior, it became apparent their lives were in need of a little joy. Enter an energetic, white ball of fluff known as Mr. Wilson. Mr. Wilson's story begins in Arkansas, where he was left in a leaky, drafty barn for days.

When Kim de Blecourt and her husband decided to adopt a child from Ukraine, they knew that the process might be challenging. Nothing, however, could have prepared de Blecourt for the twisted nightmare she would endure. During her year-long struggle to extricate her newly adopted little boy from that post-Soviet country's corrupt social service and judicial systems, de Blecourt was insulted, physically assaulted, and arrested. Worse, her months of loneliness, worry, and fear drove her to the brink of spiritual despair. But God had no intention of abandoning de Blecourt or her family.

This is a no-nonsense guide that will give you everything you need to know about how to pay for long-term care for yourself, Mom, or Dad without going broke. Naked in the Nursing Home adroitly weaves together both humor and hard-hitting facts to equip you and your elderly parents for the future.