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Author: Alexandra Penney Publisher: Hachette Books ISBN: 140139499X Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 186
Book Description
In December 2008, my worst nightmare came true . . . How do you pick yourself up after the one thing you most feared happens to you? Alexandra Penney's revealing, spirited, and ultimately redemptive true story shows us how. Throughout her life, Alexandra Penney's worst fear was of becoming a bag lady. Even as she worked several jobs while raising a son as a single mother, wrote a bestselling advice book, and became editor in chief of Self magazine, she was haunted by the image of herself alone, bankrupt, and living on the street. She even went to therapy in an attempt to alleviate the worry that all she had worked for could crumble. And then, one day, that's exactly what happened. Penney had taken a friend's advice and invested nearly everything she had ever earned--all of her savings--with Bernie Madoff. One day she was successful and wealthy; the next she had almost nothing. Suddenly, at an age when many Americans retire, Penney saw her worst nightmares coming true. Based on her popular blog posts on The Daily Beast, this memoir chronicles Penney's struggle to cope with the devastating financial and emotional fallout of being cheated out of her life savings and illuminates her journey back to sanity, solvency, and security. "I will work harder than I ever have before--which was pretty hard indeed--and see what happens. I have the feeling something good will come of it: tough, challenging work and laserlike focus have always paid off for me. . . . Was it better to have it and then lose it? Yes, yes, yes! Even though I lived with horrible bag lady fears of losing it all, now that those financial fears have materialized, I'm in pretty good shape and looking to what's next. Experiences -- good and bad, exciting and boring, tragic and absurd -- make up a life. Not to have lived to the fullest is the saddest, most irresponsible life I can think of." --- from The Bag Lady Papers
Author: Alexandra Penney Publisher: Hachette Books ISBN: 140139499X Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 186
Book Description
In December 2008, my worst nightmare came true . . . How do you pick yourself up after the one thing you most feared happens to you? Alexandra Penney's revealing, spirited, and ultimately redemptive true story shows us how. Throughout her life, Alexandra Penney's worst fear was of becoming a bag lady. Even as she worked several jobs while raising a son as a single mother, wrote a bestselling advice book, and became editor in chief of Self magazine, she was haunted by the image of herself alone, bankrupt, and living on the street. She even went to therapy in an attempt to alleviate the worry that all she had worked for could crumble. And then, one day, that's exactly what happened. Penney had taken a friend's advice and invested nearly everything she had ever earned--all of her savings--with Bernie Madoff. One day she was successful and wealthy; the next she had almost nothing. Suddenly, at an age when many Americans retire, Penney saw her worst nightmares coming true. Based on her popular blog posts on The Daily Beast, this memoir chronicles Penney's struggle to cope with the devastating financial and emotional fallout of being cheated out of her life savings and illuminates her journey back to sanity, solvency, and security. "I will work harder than I ever have before--which was pretty hard indeed--and see what happens. I have the feeling something good will come of it: tough, challenging work and laserlike focus have always paid off for me. . . . Was it better to have it and then lose it? Yes, yes, yes! Even though I lived with horrible bag lady fears of losing it all, now that those financial fears have materialized, I'm in pretty good shape and looking to what's next. Experiences -- good and bad, exciting and boring, tragic and absurd -- make up a life. Not to have lived to the fullest is the saddest, most irresponsible life I can think of." --- from The Bag Lady Papers
Author: Carol Leonard SeCoy Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1450220568 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 337
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Tired of fending off street thugs and worried about the day they can no longer take care of themselves, three elderly widows, Josie, Mabel and Mil, concoct the perfect plan for ensuring their safety, which will also guarantee them free room and board for life. As grocery bag-covered bodies begin turning up in Southern California, police and the media are stumped. Detectives assigned to the case, Paige Turner and Mark Wisneski, wonder what weird new serial killer is on the loose. The victims are mostly drug addicts and small-time crooks, but why the grocery bags? The bodies pile up until the widows invite Turner and Wisneski to tea, where they tell all. What they reveal shocks the world and could lead to the widows' master plan seriously backfiring. Life on the streets and in prison will never be the same.
Author: Dina Dove Publisher: Health Communications, Inc. ISBN: 0757307221 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 264
Book Description
A contemporary and empowering story of how a woman trapped in perpetual despair and self-pity is transformed by a little old lady and her shopping bag of tricks inspires individuals to become more conscious of the way they lead their daily lives. Original. 25,000 first printing.
Author: Althea Pascascio Publisher: ISBN: 9780977837779 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 216
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Weighed down since birth by her emotional baggage, Faith Donnovan's story reads like a litany of misfortune. At 30, Faith finds herself engaged to Justin, a charming and exotic Central American who helps her face her past and shows her how to love herself.
Author: Phd Mdiv Cpc Sandra Jenkins Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0557591007 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 295
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This book explores a real life transformational process, using a variety of techniques, including psychology, spirituality and life's experiences. That is, any transformed grief-stricken life possesses meaning and usefulness, and can be a powerful approach to positive psychology, vision and leadership.
Author: Liela Fuller Publisher: Jadora's Child Publishing ISBN: 9780996128995 Category : Languages : en Pages : 34
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Everyone has a reason they are where they are. Everyone has a story and this is the story of Bag Lady, a successful woman eager to enter into the next dimension of life holding onto the baggage she picked up along the way. The question is how will she ever make it to the next dimension carrying the weight of so much and so many? Bag Lady is a short story written by author and journal creator Liela Marie Fuller.
Author: Suzanne Austin Publisher: ISBN: 9781733562645 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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At the age of fifteen, Suzanne found herself on the streets with no where to go. Although she had some loving, caring adults in her life during the formative years-her aunt, uncle and grandmother-everyone who looked out for her and her brother had died by the time she turned twelve. After suffering abuse from her mom's boyfriends on various occasions, the courts took her from her home. After running away from county shelters, Suzanne was determined to take care of herself. One night, she saw an ad in the evening paper looking for dancers. They were paying a few hundred dollars a week. That was great money at the time, and she thought, well, I can dance. Her dream was to be on TV and have her name in lights on the Vegas strip, so she figured this was her shot. Suzanne would spend the next thirty years dancing at strip clubs. During this time she developed some great friendships with other girls as they discussed their "daddy issues."In her late twenties Sue enrolled in a comedy competition through a radio station in her hometown of Pittsburgh PA. She had no idea at the time how this would change the course of her life. Through combining her stripper act and love for comedy, she created the character of "Bag Lady Sue." The Bag Lady has been entertaining audiences-especially at biker rallies and veteran's charities-all across the United States for the past thirty years.Sue takes you through her deepest struggles to her greatest victories, and all the men in between. You will laugh, cry? and blush.
Author: Lisa D. Foster Publisher: John Hunt Publishing ISBN: 1803411678 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 225
Book Description
A billion plastic bags a day. That’s how many bags Americans were throwing away in 2005 when Lisa D. Foster first switched to reusable bags. The impacts of all those bags on our environment and our taxes kept her up at night. It was wrong. Morally wrong. She believed that if American shoppers knew what she knew, they would switch to reusable bags too. So, she did what any good English teacher would do. She took the facts about bags and turned them into a story. Over the next 12 years, that story transformed Lisa into the Bag Lady, an eco-entrepreneur on a mission to save the world one reusable bag at a time. Because she was driven by purpose, she did a lot of things right. She sold a quarter of a million reusable bags her first year, 2 million her second year, and 8 million her third year. Each reusable bag had the potential to replace a thousand single-use bags, collectively eliminating billions of plastic bags. Lisa also did a lot of things wrong. One out of ten startups fail, and odds are worse for people like her with no business experience or training. In the end, she built a thriving company, disrupted the plastic bag industry and changed the way America shops. It was a wild ride.
Author: Alexandra Penney
Author: Alexandra Penney
Author: Carol Leonard SeCoy
Author: Dina Dove
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