Guest Post: Inspiration From a Smile by Tim Whitney

Tim Whitney is the author of Thanksgiving At the Inn. More details after the story. Back in the spring of 1983 I was a ‘typical’ cocky high school senior, counting the days until I could escape my small home town and run off to college in Boston. My last hurdle before graduation was a volunteer… Read More »

GUEST POST: Back to School with ADHD

Note from Callista: The three books mentioned below will be reviewed here at SMS Book Reviews this week. Back to School with ADHD by Jeanne Gehret, M.A. September 13-20 is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Awareness Week. When I mentioned this to the mother of a child with attention problems, she laughed. “I wish I… Read More »

Guest Post: Indigo Testing by Dr. Janine Talty, DO

Indigo Testing As the Indigo adults begin to identify themselves based on lists of characteristics found on the Internet and in some printed texts, where can they go to get validation for their suppositions? Who can they ask? How can they verify beyond a reasonable doubt if in fact they qualify to fit in this… Read More »

[Guest Post] Travel Guides by Michael Schuermann

Thanks to Callista for giving me the opportunity of addressing you, her readers, in this way. What happened was this: A few days ago, Callista contacted me, having come across a press release about my recently published book, Paris Movie Walks – to which she had replied to my publisher, with refreshing candor, that she… Read More »

[Guest Review] Ambulance Girl: How I Saved Myself by Becoming an EMT by Jane Stern

*This review is by Sarah at Puss Reboots* Jane Stern is a contributing editor for Gourmet magazine. She’s also a volunteer EMT. She’s been nicknamed “Ambulance girl” by the community she serves. Ambulance Girl chronicles her journey from hypochondria and depression to finding purpose as an EMT. Each chapter reads like a short story, often… Read More »

Day 4: Guest Post by Janine Sherman, MSN WHNP-BC

Day 4 – Guest Post The Importance of Open Communicationby Janine Sherman, MSN WHNP-BC NOTE: This is a TRUE story. One day I received a call from a patient who told me her 16 year old daughter hadn’t had a period in a few months and that she had put on a few pounds. My… Read More »

Day 3: Guest Post by Mary Jo Rapini, MEd, LPC

Day 3 – Guest Post Reduce Your Stress by Reducing Your Daughter’s Stressby Mary Jo Rapini, MEd, LPC*Originally printed at Mary Jo Rapini and She Knows When your teen’s hormone – and friendship – fluctuations are in high drive and your nerves have been sassed and moped raw, tension, stress and heated arguments (or staunch… Read More »