The subtitle of this book is, Change your thinking, change your life. And that’s basically what Chris Prentiss, author of The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure, Zen and the Art of Happiness and other books, promotes: you are what you think. If you believe it can happen, it will. If you are negative, you will reap [...]

I picked up Susan Cheever’s book, Home Before Dark, years ago because the title intrigued me. A title should be “tough,” as one English professor told me in my college days, and Cheever’s title is certainly that. The book languished on my shelves with many others I have bought over the years, intending to read [...]