Encouraging Words for the Menopause and Midlife Roller Coaster
In honor of Mother’s Day, images and words from We Are Women: Celebrating Our Grit and Wit by June Cotner and Barb Mayer (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2016) Read more about this vibrant and engaging book on this Friend for the Ride post.
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Introducing: WE ARE WOMEN: CELEBRATING OUR WIT AND GRIT. This spunky, upbeat, and moving collection of photographs and quotations was created by June Cotner and Barb Mayer. In this post, Barb tells us more:
The idea for WE ARE WOMEN originated with June, who has always loved browsing through vintage greeting cards. Curious about what kind of lives these women led, she decided to develop a book that would feature vintage photos of women paired with inspiring as well as humorous quotes. Our goal was to create a book that would appeal to both younger and older women, one that would embody the best of the human spirit. We wanted to show how these positive characteristics have been handed down through generations of women.
WE ARE WOMEN is a celebration of womanhood. It shows that our ancestors were a far cry from the staid and serious portrait photos we often see in antique shops and history books. They were daring, innovative, and fun-loving. They were pilots, motorcycle riders, skiers, engineers, and political activists. Many were pioneers who paved the way for future generations of women to pursue careers that were traditionally dominated by men.
We hope that our book will inspire and uplift women, encouraging them to live their lives to the fullest.
Giveaway: Friend for the Ride is giving away a copy of WE ARE WOMEN to two lucky winners. For a chance to win, please enter a comment by April 30. Thanks!
Amazon Link: You can order WE ARE WOMEN here.
June Cotner is the author of 34 books including the bestselling GRACES. Her books altogether have sold more than one million copies and have been featured in many national publications including USA Today, Woman’s Day, and Family Circle. Follow June on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter. Check out June’s website at www.JuneCotner.com and her author page on Amazon.com
Barb Mayer is a frequent contributor to the anthologies of June Cotner, as well as an award-winning photographer. Born in London, England, she relocated to Canada, then to America, developing along the way a zest for travel and foreign culture. Follow Barb on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. You may visit her website at www.BarbMayer.com and her author page on Amazon.com
More detailed info on photo credits can be found here. (These are fascinating to read.)
This may be the last Christmas in our big old yellow house. I’m pulling out all the decorating stops!
Cliff and I lugged down a boatload of boxes from the attic. Angels, Santas, bells, Christmas houses, reindeer, sheep, and camels are prancing about. The empty tree stretches high toward the ceiling, and a gazillion ornaments are calling, “Me! Me! Me!” The decorating, yet to be finished, is making my world feel chaotic.
So when I picked up Christmas Blessings: Prayers and Poems to Celebrate the Season, June Cotner’s lovely new volume, I was touched by the book’s sweet small size, and most of all, by its shortest selections.These poems speak to the simple yet important thoughts of Christmas. They calm me!
Thanks to June and her publisher, Andrews McMeel Publishing, one Friend for the Ride reader will win a copy of Christmas Blessings. Please enter your name by December 12, and I’ll select a winner using random integer generator.
Christmas Blessings makes a perfect gift. Here’s the Amazon link.
June Cotner is the author of 34 engaging and insightful books and products bringing “A World of Inspiration!” She’s sold over one million copies of her works. Follow June on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter. Check out June’s website at www.JuneCotner.com and her author page on Amazon.com
I’m pleased my poem, “The Year the Christmas Tree Fell Over,” is included in Christmas Blessings. (The poem was also printed in an earlier version of the book.) I’ve got a short holiday toast in Christmas Blessings too.
Check out June’s post on Friend for the Ride about hiking with her rescue dog, Indy.
I’ll toast to just about anything. I love to celebrate (and I love to raise a glass). When June Cotner and Nancy Tupper Ling put out a call for toasts for their upcoming anthology, I couldn’t resist!
I’m lucky enough to have 14 toasts featured in Toasts: The Perfect Words to Celebrate Every Occasion, published last fall by Viva Editions.
Since it’s almost April Fools Day, I present to you my toast, “To Foolish Fun!”
Friends, you can fool me once!
Friends, you can fool me twice!
Here’s to lots of foolish fun,
Before this crazy day is done.
USA Today calls Toasts an “adorable collection of special thoughts.” You’ll find toasts and blessings for weddings, funerals, christenings, retirement, birthdays, graduations, bon voyage, holidays, and plenty of other occasions.
I was surprised and touched to read my name in the Introduction:
Wouldn’t my British Literature professor at Duke, now gone to the ivory towers in the sky, get a jolt out of that one! I remember her quoting Wordsworth with gusto shortly after returning papers. Mine had a less than stellar grade at the top in a large red letter.
Back to April Fools Day. Promise me you’ll use my toast on April 1. Offer it at breakfast, send it over the office email, put it on your FB page. I’d be delighted, no fooling!
Giveaway: Thanks to Viva Editions for offering Friend for the Ride one copy of Toasts: The Perfect Words to Celebrate Every Occasion. For a chance to win, please enter a comment by April 5. (The comment link is at the bottom). U.S. and Canada only. Thanks!
You’ll want your own copy of Toasts, and the book makes a creative gift, especially for graduations, wedding showers, and birthdays. Click here for the Amazon link.
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