This is a mother-daughter story.  It is the story of a mother, Kliot, who used her ingenuity to survive as a Jew in Germany during the Holocaust in ways that were new to me.  But it is also the story of the mother’s daughter, Mitsios, who in her teen years is told that she is [...]

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Fannie Mae. All opinions are 100% mine. By now you are well aware of the real estate crisis brought on by a number of factors that include lack of necessary knowledge or poor money management by home buyers; buyers being convinced by real estate [...]

In a time of economic downturn, families trying to make ends meet, husbands and wives trying to figure out how to make the money that they DO make work for them, this book comes as a breath of fresh air…sort of. The “breath of fresh air” part is the way the book, If I’m So [...]

Marion Elizabeth Witte takes us on a very personal journey into her past as an abused child growing up in a farmhouse in the prairies of North Dakota. Her childhood was not only cold and harsh on a physical level because of the cold winters in a home that didn’t have adequate heat, plumbing and [...]