Category Archives: Self-Help

Free ebook: Wishcraft

We were discussing business plans on one of the freelancing email lists that I’m on and talk turned to life plans. Someone mentioned Wishcraft as being a book that they found really useful and reread every few years. Despite the cheesy name, I decided to check it out since it is now a free download…

No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog by Margaret Mason (Review)

Surprisingly useful ideas, but the high list price of the book is a turn off.

The Writing Diet by Julia Cameron (Review)

Julia Cameron’s The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size has a different approach to getting yourself to adopt a healthy lifestyle that might appeal to those who can manage journalling for more than a few days.

The Power of Who by Bob Beaudine (Review)

Released January 2009 (Center Street) * 192 pages * ISBN 13: 9781599951539 The Power of Who: You Already Know Everyone You Need to Know by Bob Beaudine proposes that the traditional view of networking that many of us are familiar with simply does not work and that, as the subtitle says, we already know everyone…

So Why Have You Never Been Married by Carl Weisman (Review)

So Why Have You Never Been Married: 10 Insights Into Why He Hasn’t Wed by Carl Weisman is one man’s investigation of why he is over 40 and not yet married.

Dating the Older Man by Vranich and Grashow (Review)

A review of Dating the Older Man: Consider Your Differences and Decide if He’s Right for You by Belisa Vranich and Laura Grashow. This book is a guide for women either considering dating or already dating an older man.

Dating Makes You Want to Die by Holloway and Robinson (Review)

A Review of Dating Makes You Want to Die (But You Have to Do It Anyway) by Daniel Holloway and Dorothy Robinson. Not your usual dating self-help book.

Perfect Daughters by Robert Ackerman (Review)

Perfect Daughters by Robert J. Ackerman is a non-fiction book that reports the results of a survey of more than a thousand adult daughters of alcoholics.

Forgiving Our Parents, Forgiving Our Selves (Review)

A review of Forgiving Our Parents, Forgiving Our Selves by James A. Stoop and David Masteller. The focus of the book is forgiveness. The authors are careful to distinguish forgiveness from forgetting. Forgetting is not a requirement, but forgiveness sets the adult child free.