With 42 photographs of everyday objects looked at from different angles, plus quirky, original meditations about looking on the lighter side. These mini essays are based on quotations from wise teachers throughout history such as Helen Keller, Dolly Parton, Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, Emily Dickinson, Katharine Hepburn, and the author's great-grandmother. And each and every one includes a tidbit of food for thought, a piece of advice, or something to do, such as "Look for an opportunity in a difficulty that's been dogging you."

Isn't it time to give up that half-empty glass?

"Keeping ourselves optimistic isn't really all that much work. And when we're feeling optimistic it's a good time to stop and smell the roses, to savor, to celebrate the glass half full." —from the introduction

Inspired by Lynn Grabhorn's bestselling Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting, 365 Excuse Me . . . contains 365 empowering meditations to help readers live the Law of Attraction and embrace the possibilities that life offers every day.

Each day's meditation has three parts:


• A quote from Lynn Grabhorn


• A charmingly told anecdote or teaching story


• A personal goal for the day

Lynn Grabhorn wrote: "Didn't you ever feel that there's some secret part of you that knows everything there is to know but just doesn't stick its head out? There is."

365 Excuse Me . . . offers readers the motivation and inspiration to find the secret part in themselves to live the Law of Attraction every day of the year.

What's in a word? If the word is a wish, a powerful plenty times a hundred. Mina Parker has chosen one hundred words any new parents might wish for their baby and paired them with inspirational quotes, silly sayings, and little poems. Here are just a few examples:

Take achievement--Sleeping through the night--a fine achievement for baby and mom.

Or beauty: "The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things." --Plato

Or generosity: "Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."--Buddha

Or freedom: Barefoot in spring grass. Running without your diaper. Living the good life.

Find these plus ninety-six more whimsical, inspiring, and loving messages for baby, all rendered in vibrant pastels--with polka dots, hearts, stars, rabbits, teddy bears, and more.

* Inspired by the Chinese "one hundred good wishes" quilt for a new baby, the wishes and the fabric for which come from family and friends

* More than 4,000,000 babies are born in the U.S. every year--and they all need good wishes.

* A perfect gift for a baby shower, a naming ceremony, or a baptism.

Snappy, not sappy! Mother Is a Verb is a beautiful, sweet, sometimes quirky, tribute to mom-hood that features quotes paired with mom-verb sayings. Each spread celebrates something mothers do!

"To give quickly is a great virtue" is a Hindu Proverb that's paired with the truth we all know: "Mothers know what we need before we know it ourselves." And "The patience of a mother might be likened to a tube of toothpaste--it's never quite all gone" is shown opposite "Mothers squeeze us and we squeeze `em right back." Have truer words ever been spoken?

* A tribute to always moving, doing, going-the-extra-mile moms!

* A stylish gift for any mother--from new moms to grandmoms--for any occasion and just in time for Mother's Day.