Humor, Topic, Marriage & Family
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Where's my phone?
"Finding Life’s Treasures in the Chaos”
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Darshani is a busy mom, human resources manager, entrepreneur, and nutritionist who’s constantly juggling a million things—until she loses her phone. What starts as a simple search for a missing phone turns into a laugh-out-loud yet emotional...
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Robservations
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Six sisters, two brothers, a Monty Python–loving mom, and a military father all add up to one very full and funny house in Rob Clark’s Robservations. Growing up in a chaotic Catholic household in the ’60s and ’70s was rarely easy—forced haircuts,...
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Stories at the Kitchen Table
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In this captivating and often humorous collection of short stories, Katherine Brady recounts the true stories of her late father Terry, bringing them to the page from the table around which the family used to gather. The tales come from Terry’s...
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Why It's Time to Go to Sleep
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The bath is done, the milk is finished, the storybook has been closed. It’s time to go to sleep. The atmosphere of coziness and contentedness is shattered with a single question and the tantrum that goes with it: WHY? Of course, there’s the...
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Life as an Awesome Doormat
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Sometimes even when you try to do what’s right, things don’t always work out and you’re left feeling like a doormat. In Life as an Awesome Doormat, author Dorothy MacIntosh shares a delightful array of anecdotes about just that. From growing up...
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The Fuller Picture
Cam Fuller Looks at Life
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Sprinting into the grocery story at closing time because your kids need greencoloured snacks for school in the morning. Realizing that when your partner asks if that’s the outfit you’re planning to wear, you’ve planned wrong and will have to...
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"Hey, there's no violin in this case!"
Life with 7 Ms 1958-2018
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This book chronicles the year-by-year activities of a large, very active family. Frustrations and achievements, gratitude to a Heavenly Father, small business ventures, a love of nature and beauty, much hilarity, the undertaking of thousands of...
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Not a Fairy Tale
A Story of Surviving the First Three Years of Being a Stepmom
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The inspiring and hilarious story of Maddie Laberge’s journey from a carefree, childless life to becoming a stepmom of three. Nothing could have prepared Maddie for what was about to happen to her quiet, simple life once all three of her...
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Rural Vignettes
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There is the episode when a neighboring youth hid two cases of beer in their privy and the time that the author nearly burned down the farm. And no farm story would be complete without a tale about laughing cows, and there was the time that three...
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Being 50 is a Lot of Work
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Turning 50 ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. Heck, it’s a lot of work! Your wife sees through all your excuses to get out of housework, and your kids have moved from bedtime stories to jokes about your bald spot. Sports aren’t nearly as fun when...
