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This is the third edition of Ms. Waters’ popular book on the estrangement of parents by their adult children. This edition has been extensively rewritten and contains new chapters exploring cults, social media’s role, and coping with this tragic family rift. When adult children estrange one or both parents, the shocked parents desperately seek answers. They search for flaws in themselves and their parenting. Hurting and embarrassed, they retreat into their darkest emotional corners while being condemned as a parental failure. Estrangement is often treated as a family squabble that no ...

Restless sixty-nine year old Sharon Waters buys an RV, leaves everything behind except her devoted pets, and embarks on a solitary journey akin to the proverbial wandering in the desert. Her three-year trip along harrowing highways and in freezing parking lots tests her strength, ingenuity, and resilience. She digs deep into her personal marrow, meets many, and learns much along the way, but mostly it’s a search for herself. This inspiring memoir relates a wealth of practical knowledge and tells a cautionary tale for those new to RV living. For more experienced travelers, she shares ...

Magic, a Schipperke whose attachment with his owner becomes extraordinary, overcomes fears resulting from the brutal months before his adoption. Confined with older, bigger dogs, he spent his early life crammed into a hole in the Arizona desert. When Sharon Waters rescued him, she recognized his need for understanding and forgiveness for his defensive behavior. During the next twelve years they formed a special bond as Magic found joy with his little family, which included dog Cricket and a cat named Milo. Magic became a celebrity in Salem, Massachusetts; spent three years traveling in an ...

So you want to write a book. Maybe you’ve been working on one for ages or have jotted down endless ideas, but the first chapter hasn’t materialized. It’s intimidating, and rightly so. It requires the ability not only to write but also to navigate the fire-hose of information coming at you from the writing field. If you want to organize your thoughts, get your ideas on paper, move your project to completion, or navigate to publishing, this guide will help. This book provides brief chapters on topics others often overlook. It covers practical basics and namedrops terms that, by being ...

In this short story beloved feline Milo vanishes out a window. His disappearance is devastating and searching for him preoccupies that summer. Hoping for his return through an unexpected miracle, the author describes the anguish of a soul-mate pet gone missing. Milo is the only remaining cat of the many she's had, and a special trip is planned for Milo to celebrate their bond. But when Milo disappears, besides the heartache, even the daily functioning of life goes awry. The author struggles with Milo’s significance to her and how she should handle this loss. Milo’s disappearance ...

Ms. Waters’ bittersweet memoir reveals an emotionally turbulent life teetering on the edge between anguish and resilience. In this manifesto-turned memoir, she writes of loves and loves lost, survival, forgiveness, and adventures in faraway places. Told in vivid anecdotes, this poignant story spotlights the precarious balance she maintains when her family and the people she meets impact her self-esteem and limit her ambitions in a male-dominated world, all the while examining the events and values from the 1940s to the present. The author survives ill-fated relationships, being swept out ...