Tagebücher & Memoiren

Denna bok är berättelsen om vad som hände när min mamma blev sjuk. Vi följer en tidigare pigg och frisk kvinna i 80-årsåldern som, då hon drabbas av cancer i bukspottkörteln, hamnar i en vårdkarusell som inkluderar hemtjänst, sjukhusvård, korttidsboende och äldreboende. Under hela den här perioden stötte vi på stora svårigheter med kommunikation, nonchalant och okunnig personal samt byråkratiska och administrativa labyrinter av svindlande proportioner. Men vi mötte också underbara människor som gjorde ett genuint bra arbete! Som sjuksköterska på en Intensivvårdsavdelning sedan många år fick jag nu en unik och skrämmande inblick i vården ur patientens och de anhörigas perspektiv. Jag dokumenterade allt och här är resultatet. Min förhoppning är att våra beslutsfattare ska läsa boken och förstå vad som är galet, men också bra, i svensk sjukvård. Samt att de som jobbar i systemet ska få kunskap om hur det, och de, uppfattas av anhörig och patient. Men jag hoppas också att denna bok ska hjälpa andra navigera i svensk sjukvård, både för egen del men också för sina anhöriga. Man måste vara frisk för att orka vara sjuk är ett pinsamt sant citat. Vare sig du är patient eller anhörig. Att bli behandlad som en människa är ingen självklarhet i dagens sjukvård.

j'ai grandi avec la différence de voir les défunts.Cela raconte aussi comment ma famille a pu surmonter un terrible drame.Grâce à l'amour et à la résilience, en faisant chaque pas vers un soleil renaissant d'espoir.

"Just keep on living..." My late mother, the inspiration for Ageless Glamour Girls¿, used to love saying this. I first heard it in my mid-twenties, but it didn't click until later in life when I began navigating this aging journey. And among many of our mothers back then, there was very little, if any, talk with their daughters about growing older, and all that comes with it. And the M-word? What the heck is that?This void inspired me to want to share information and engage with other women on the same journey. My first foray into gathering and celebrating women came years ago when I set out to form the online group, Between Us Girls, and I secured the domain name, betweenusgirls.com. After my job began taking over my life, I somehow lost the domain before I got started in earnest, and when I checked it again, it was a porn site. Oh well... Several years later, and still on a mission to become a vehicle to help women manage aging, I created Ageless Glamour Girls¿, targeting women 50+. (I cover the origin of the name in my chapter.) My vision was, and still is today, to provide a platform in which women of a certain age can "gather" together and share information on various topics, including caregiving, finances, second acts, menopause, plastic surgery, dementia, sexual health, grief, incontinence, and everything else from finding love to finding the best mascara that stands up to hot flashes. Our goal is to inform, inspire, empower, motivate, and entertain through the voices of various experts and women sharing their personal stories.We love uplifting and celebrating older women through various platforms, including social media posts on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook - the AGG website, and a private FB group: The Ageless Café, the Ageless Glamour Girls¿ Podcast; and now an anthology: "Ageless Glamour Girls¿: Reflections on Aging." I am THRILLED the women in this book chose to share their stories with me and the world. Get ready to be inspired, amazed, informed, and entertained! A huge thank you and shout out to my phenomenal co-authors! I love you, Ladies! #blessingsgalore

In the highly anticipated sequel to her award-winning memoir, Daring to Date Again (She Writes Press, 2014), The Sweet Pain of Being Alive is the second in Ann Anderson Evans's memoir trilogy. It follows her heartbreaking journey as she seeks to uncover why her beloved husband killed himself. As her agonizing search deepens, her views on gender, sex, marriage, right, wrong, good, and bad start to shift."Ann Anderson Evans is a fearless, fierce, divine, and wise woman who has dared to take a huge bite from Eve's apple and has the guts to share the insights, fights, and delights she has met head-on."- M.J. McDermott, Emmy award-winning broadcaster."This book reveals a widow's gut-wrenching process of scrutiny. In the aftermath of her beloved's suicide, Ann Anderson Evans asks the questions all suicide survivors must ask: Why? Was his life really so bad? How could I have saved him? Futilely searching for answers to this inexplicable tragedy, Ann has beautifully, painfully dissected her relationship, her husband's life, and his enduring struggles with depression and transgenderism. Ann is left to find acceptance and peace on her own. This is compelling reading."- Leslie Hilburn Fabian, Author of My Husband's a Woman Now: A Shared Journey of Transition and Love."'People are not always, maybe not ever, what they seem,' writes Ann Anderson Evans. She thought she knew her husband Terry. What she didn't know - the secret he only partially shared and his anguish about not claiming his authentic self - led him to suicide. 'This book is stark, unflinching, intensely personal, and powerfully written. I loved the book, and I'm grateful to Ann Anderson Evans for having the courage to write it.'"- Joan Price, author of Sex After Grief: Navigating Your Sexuality After Losing Your Beloved.

The author tells his story of being born under the Gemini star sign, living a life defined by an unremitting struggle between the conflicting twins of "Yes, I can" and "No, you can't!" It describes a struggle of early childhood uncertainty, being hidden as a child, of unanswered questions and preferring to be in the background during his childhood through to his middle years. Generally surrendering to the opinions of others, while holding back on his own views, was the hallmark of his being.Hesitating to take on challenges was a familiar pattern, as was the likelihood of yielding to mediocracy, the easy way out. Tilting the balance away from "No you can't" to "Yes, I can ... and I will" was the major factor in the author's life towards holding leadership positions in every sphere of his adult public life, from committee secretary early in his professional career to becoming Cape Town's first citizen. From the mayoralty to ministry, standing up for justice and the dignity of life and being able to make a difference was the path he chose; mediocracy simply was not good enough.

As we experience the joys of life, we must also be prepared to handle heartache and despair. For 27 years I thought I had a near-perfect family, two wonderful kids (both grown now), and a wife that I loved and looked forward to spending the rest of my life with. Then one evening she announced that didn't love me and that she has never loved me. As I fell into darkness... The Diary of a Broken Man began.

This story of Scattered, Smothered, and Yet Covered by the Grace of God tells the unknown, the unbelievable, and the hurt and heartache that scattered my life in 2010 with my son's dive into addiction. His addictions from pot to pills would scatter and smother me for the next eight-plus years. This isn't only a raw look into addiction and the destruction it causes, but more importantly, it is a look into a story of God's love, hope, mercy, and grace that covered me and my son during these years in addition to being covered by friendships and prayers when we couldn't cover ourselves.I learned in 2019-2020 while writing this story that there is an obvious thread woven within this story-that is, God was there in every detail along the way. I was scattered into pieces, broken beyond what I could have imagined, smothered to the point of true breathlessness, and yet covered by the grace of God each and every day. But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body. So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.I am thankful, Lord, for the refining and redemption lived within this story. I have been covered by the grace of God!

"IF You really want to hear about" my history of the 6 decades of changes in 'my Village' "you'll probably want to know where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like....and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it if you want to know the truth." In the first place that stuff bores me, and in the second places, my parents" long since in their graves in Mt Pleasant Cemetery overlooking the bowling alley in Hartville, Ohio - "would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything very personal about them . They were quite touchy about anything like that and would not appreciate it ...Besides, I am not going to tell you my whole goddamn autobiography or something. I am just going to tell you about this stuff that happened to me" starting in the fall of 1957.

This is an anthology of stories, poems, and artwork by people born with congenital heart defects (CHDs). These authors share their stories of hope on several themes. This volume includes the following themes: Growing Up with Congenital Heart Defects, How My CHD Defines Me, Being Active with CHD, and CHDs Around the Globe. Since CHDs are the #1 birth defect around the world, people across the globe are living with birth defects that could literally end their lives in a heartbeat. What does it mean to live with tetralogy of Fallot, transposition of the great arteries, hypoplastic left (or right) heart syndrome, single ventricle, atrial septal defect, ventricular septal defect, or a Fontan heart? How does having a CHD affect your ability to become a mother? Since most of the authors in this book were born with complex congenital heart defects and have at least one open-heart surgery, they have a unique connection with one another. The way the authors describe their experiences is eerily similar, despite having been born in different decades, in different locations, and receiving treatment at various hospitals across the globe. The commonality is their heart defect and their relationship with their own mortality. This book is co-edited by Anna Jaworski, the mother of an adult child with a critical congenital heart defect, and Megan Tones, a heart warrior--a term we reserve for people born with a CHD. Together, they have edited stories of strength and resilience, hope and despair, and success and triumph. Besides being an editor, Megan Tones is a contributor to the book. Her contributions show her capacity for understanding what other authors have shared. Many of the authors have shared stories of the trauma they have endured in living with a chronic, life-threatening condition. These stories are sure to bring comfort and hope to members of the congenital heart defect community.

Die Geschichte erzählt von einer jungen Frau, die von den Schatten ihrer traumatischen Vergangenheit gezeichnet ist. Misshandelt und missbraucht von ihren eigenen Eltern, trägt sie die Last einer schizoiden Persönlichkeitsstruktur, Posttraumatischer Belastungsstörung, Borderline und Bindungsangst. Inmitten ihres Lebens beschließt sie, sich dem Trauma zu stellen. Durch jahrelanges Traumtraining entwickelt sie einen Traumkörper, den sie wie ein Schamane auf eine Reise schickt. Meditation, Bewusstseinstrainings und Visualisierung erweitern ihre geistigen und emotionalen Grenzen. Sie reist in die Anderswelt, um dann mit neuen Informationen sowie frischen Ideen zurückzukehren, die sie mittels ihrer Kunst, vor allem Malerei, mit der vorhandenen Realität verwebt. Ihre künstlerische Reise wird nicht nur zu einem Ausdruck ihrer inneren Welt, sondern auch zu einem Weg der Heilung und der Selbstfindung. Als Malerin und Schamanin erkundet sie die Tiefen ihrer Seele und findet heraus, wer sie wirklich ist, jenseits von der Identität eines Missbrauchsopfers.

An instant Sunday Times bestseller, O Brother is by turns heart-breaking and hilarious - evoking a working-class childhood of the 1970-80s and trying to answer the questions that often haunt the survivors of suicide

Die Grenze mitten durch Deutschland. Flucht, Leben im Grenzgebiet, Aussiedlung und Verlust der Heimat prägten das Leben vieler Menschen im Osten. Der Junge, der allein zurückbleibt, die zugefrorene Elbe, die die Möglichkeit einer Flucht eröffnet ... Was geschieht am Ende der Straße? Warum verläuft das Leben eines Menschen so oder anders? - Das Nachdenken über das "innere" Grenzland im zweiten Teil. Das Grenzland Ukraine - dort arbeitete Johanne Jastram drei Jahre beim Bau der Erdgastrasse. Die Nachrichten in den vergangenen Jahren haben ihr die Landschaft, die Erlebnisse und Begegnungen wieder nahe gebracht. In den Geschichten verbinden sich damalig Erlebtes und Heutiges. Ein Auszug aus ihrem Trassentagebuch beschließt den Band. - Johanne Jastram, Jg. 1947. Geboren in Grittel, Landkreis Ludwigslust, lebt in Dessau-Roßlau. Bibliothekarin, Lyrikerin und Erzählerin.

»Er ist nicht mehr da, mein Vater. Er starb an den Folgen desselben Krieges, den er mit so viel Mühe, Zufall und Glück überlebt hatte. Jeden Tag denke ich an ihn.« Jessica DurlacherGerhard L. Durlacher (1928-1996) wuchs in Baden-Baden auf. 1937 floh die Familie nach Holland. Von dort aus wurde er 1942 in das holländische Transitlager Westerbork deportiert und 1944 über Theresienstadt nach Auschwitz verschleppt. Er war einer der wenigen, die das Todeslager überlebten. Nach der Befreiung kehrte er 17-jährig nach Holland zurück, wo niemand auf ihn wartete, schloss zunächst ein Medizinstudium mit Promotion ab. Im anschließenden Soziologiestudium führten seine anerkannten Veröffentlichungen rasch zu einem Lehrstuhl.Über das in den Konzentrationslagern erlittene Leid schwieg er 40 Jahre lang und verschloss es tief im Inneren. Erst mit fast 60 Jahren wird es ihm möglich, zu schreiben und das Erlebte in Bildern und Szenen mit schockierender Eindringlichkeit und bitterer Präzision in Worte zu fassen. Erst jetzt vermag er es, die schmerzliche Einsamkeit des Überlebens in tief beeindruckender Weise zu vermitteln.Auch für seine Tochter Jessica Durlacher, die erst im Erwachsenenalter von der Vergangenheit des Vaters erfuhr, wird sein Schicksal zum zentralen Thema, mit dem sie sich auch in ihren Romanen auseinandersetzt. Die in den 90er Jahren des letzten Jahrhunderts in der Europäischen Verlagsanstalt auch auf Deutsch in Einzelbänden erschienenen Erzählungen hat Jessica Durlacher gesichtet und so zusammengestellt, nicht wie sie geschrieben, sondern wie sie gelebt wurden: von seiner Kindheit in Baden-Baden bis zur Befreiung 1945 sowie die Zeit danach. Die Sammlung wird von ihr mit einem Vorwort neu herausgegeben.

This is a fictionalised social history starting in Victorian dockland London. A lighterman, Frederick Horsfall, who worked the docks from his barge, unloading ships of every sort of cargo coming into London for the great exhibition of 1851. A tough trade, living in tough conditions in one of the most poverty-stricken parts of East London.It follows his children and grandchildren, who became Royal Marines, sailors and soldiers in the great war. It tells of their lives, loves and deaths through some of the most dramatic times in history.The story then follows a ratcatcher, William Jennings from Great Bentley in Essex, his trade, his life and marriage and his son Ernest. Ernest who became a Metropolitan policeman, working his beat around the East London docks, supplementing his living by bullying and extorting from the opium dens, brothels and illegal drinking dens of Chinatown in Limehouse.The third family, the Spiers family, started life in the village of Earl Shilton in Leicestershire, where they were forced to leave their home village to find work. They moved to Birmingham where life did not pan out as they hoped, so they continued their journey to London. Crossing paths while there with the Jennings and the Horsfall families. Two of these families emigrated to the far-flung parts of the world. One family to Brisbane in Queensland Australia, the other to St. Louis in America. The original letters and documents their descendants kept form the basis for the facts of this book, the dialogue and characteristics of the participants are purely fictional. The family dramas are interwoven with the historic global events occurring at the time.

In Full Circle: Memoir of A Vietnamese-Canadian Librarian, Vinh-The Lam tells the story of his journey from American-trained librarian in South Vietnam to Librarian Emeritus in Canada. After becoming the first US-educated President of the Vietnamese Library Association (VLA) in 1974, Lam worked alongside a team of fellow American-trained librarians to modernize and expand the South Vietnamese library system. He even founded the country's first library science department at V¿n H¿nh University. But after the fall of South Vietnam in 1975, the VLA and all of Lam's achievements were lost. He spent the next six years in poverty, before emigrating to Canada in 1981 and rebuilding his life and career. With a new start in North America, Lam made valuable contributions to the library community, eventually retiring as Librarian Emeritus from the University of Saskatchewan in 2006. When Vietnam appealed to overseas intellectuals to return and help the country move forward in the aftermath of the collapse of the Communist system, Lam and his former VLA team answered the call, ready to help Vietnam thrive in a new era of innovation and progress. This is the personal memoir of Lam's full journey, from Vietnam to Canada and back again.

Marrying intellect with romance and spiritual wisdom, it's not merely a romantic tale but a philosophical odyssey that commands attention. Enriched with profound passages exploring the spiritual realm, it unveils astonishing experiences and unexpected revelations, boasting an exceptional narrative. With eloquent prose, the book unfolds enthralling adventures and insights, spotlighting two individuals whose disparate lives converge into a journey of transformation, evoking admiration from others. This novel is not only a testament to the power of love and understanding but also a voyage into life's deeper meanings, inviting readers to traverse alongside its characters through a realm of intellectual and spiritual exploration.

Stage by Stage is a captivating tale of a Welsh family's journey through the trials and tribulations of the early 1900s. The story follows young David as he experiences the 2nd World War and family separation. The descriptions of traditional Welsh foods create a vivid and atmospheric feel to David's early life.The memories of POWs in the small town of Bala are especially intriguing. The capture of German or Italian soldiers led to their arrest and subsequent work on local farms. As David grew up, he discovered his passion for singing & sometimes in local & national eisteddfodau. After National Service he joined a Repertory Theatre Company. His lifelong dream of being in London came true when he joined the Royal Ballet, Covent Garden starting as the junior assistant stage manager and began his career in the theatre seriously.David Rees takes readers on a journey through his life in the entertainment industry, sharing poignant moments and sensational shows that he experienced throughout his global travels. Stage by Stage is a must-read for anyone who loves history, theatre, and a good family story. This book is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of pursuing one's passion.

This is the unlikely story of how two young kids accidentally find each other and go on to produce a vibrant, dynamic family and a life that can only be called a true love story. But no one really knows the private lives of other people, so I have nothing to base this on except my observations.I can't help but think our union is way above the norm. How many couples start out that early in life and get to spend an entire lifetime as lovers, best friends, and playmates? When I see so much suffering in life, I often wonder who has paid for mine. I think I am the luckiest man ever.

"Love You to Life" offers a poignant journey through the seven decades of Bishop Dr. Barbara E. Austin Lucas' life, encapsulating over 40 years of profound ministry and educational contributions. This beautiful compilation serves as an adaptation of The Festschrift, a tribute celebrating a lifetime of impactful work. Delve into the pages as Bishop Austin-Lucas takes a reflective pause, inviting family, colleagues, and friends to share insights and memories from four decades of ordained ministry, and a remarkable life devoted to service and intentional Loving to Life!

This book is non-fiction. It has drama, near death experiences. Inspiration is what I want. Just the truth. Freedom is important. When the going gets tough, the tough get going.