Wise up Irreverent enlightenment from a mother who's been through it
Book - 2022
"Filled with dry humor, sharp wit, and motherly care, Karen Duffy offers timeless pearls of wisdom. When she was diagnosed with a life-threatening neurological disease, she decided that to survive, she had to learn to laugh. In adulthood and motherhood, she has found that she has earned more than her fair share of wisdom and wisecracks to offer her teenage son. These are her stories, advice, and insights that have helped her embrace all that her whirlwind life has thrown her way"--
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- Genres
- Autobiographies
- Published
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New York :
Seal Press
2022.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- x, 272 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-269).
- ISBN
- 9781541620476
- Introduction
- 1. Why I Write You Letters
- 2. Get a Life Philosophy
- Interlude Meet the Stoics
- 3. Say No to the Pigdog
- 4. Low-Level Happiness
- 5. That's Amore
- 6. Invictus
- Interlude William Ernest Henley
- 7. Donkeys and Weasels
- 8. Uncle Golden Toe
- 9. Small Carrots
- 10. Homo Stupidus to Homo Sapiens
- Interlude The Four Cardinal Virtues
- 11. Read Yourself a New Brain
- 12. Parenting: To Bring Forth
- 13. The IMP of the Perverse
- 14. My Name Is Karen and I Do Not Want to Speak to Your Manager
- 15. Decline of the Sacred
- 16. The Strangest of Places
- 17. Memento Mori
- Interlude Things to Do When You're Dead
- 18. The Fourth Trimester
- 19. A Letter from Jack
- Appendix: The Appendix
- Additional Resources: The Holmes and Rahe Stress Scales
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgments