A Sweet Goodbye To The Friend In My Head

A Sweet Goodbye to the Friend in My Head: It’s a Different Day By: Gigi Durham From the 60s to today, Gigi Durham’s collection A Sweet Goodbye to the Friend in My Head shares stories throughout the decades, showing the ever-increasing polarization of the United States, the loss of friendships over time, and the powerful relationships of lifelong partners. Durham speaks to these experiences through the lens of a slowly deteriorating relationship with the friend in her head, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and captures the beauty and tragedy of life.

The short stories in this collection are about contemporary women, the frontiers they must cross to sustain close relationships, and their struggles to balance society's expectations with their own needs. The relationships examined in these stories are with husbands, lovers, parents, children, friends. Present at the same time are other relationships with careers, with the subtleties of corporate life, with parental and spousal obligations, with aging and the passage of time. The recurring issue: What happens when obligations to one's self collide with obligations to others and society's norms?

From the creator of The Rabbit Listened comes a gentle story about the difficulty of change . . . and the wonder that new beginnings can bring. Change and transitions are hard, but Goodbye, Friend! Hello, Friend! demonstrates how, when one experience ends, it opens the door for another to begin. It follows two best friends as they say goodbye to snowmen, and hello to stomping in puddles. They say goodbye to long walks, butterflies, and the sun...and hello to long evening talks, fireflies, and the stars. But the hardest goodbye of all comes when one of the friends has to move away. Feeling alone isn't easy, and sometimes new beginnings take time. But even the hardest days come to an end, and you never know what tomorrow will bring.

The loss of an animal companion can be a painful, wrenching experience. In Goodbye, Friend, Gary Kowalski takes you on a journey of healing, offering warmth and sound advice on how to cope with the death of your pet. Filled with heartwarming stories and practical guidance on such matters as taking care of yourself while mourning, creating rituals to honor your pet’s memory, and talking to children about death, Goodbye, Friend is a beautiful and comforting book for anyone grieving the loss of a beloved animal.

My best friend’s little sister is the ultimate forbidden fruit. I’m the bad boy. She’s the good girl. I’ve fought for survival all my life. My best friend and I have built an empire with our fists, sweat, and blood. There’s nothing I won’t do to protect her, no matter the sacrifice—even my own heart. I should know better than to want her. She’s got big dreams that don’t involve me. I need to set her free so she can escape our small town. Not just for her sake—if her brother finds out about us, it’s more than my heart that could be broken. But one kiss from her soft lips, and I know I’ll never let her go. USA Today bestselling author Autumn Jones Lake welcomes you to her captivating new series full of passion, longing, and the unbreakable bonds of chosen family. brother's best friend, best friend's little sister, MMA, underground fighter, mechanic, blue collar worker, morally gray hero, touch her and die, protective hero, possessive hero, chosen family, found family, childhood friends, overcoming childhood trauma, car racing, coming of age, new adult, friends to lover, virgin, reality television, lost kings mc, lost kings motorcycle club, lost kings mc world, upstate New York, small town romance

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