Teddi Overman’s family is slowly falling away from her in Looking for Me by Beth Hoffman. She’s never quite fit the mold that her mother wished for her, loving instead finding and restoring pieces of furniture even as a young teen. After graduating high school, she leaves the family farm in Kentucky in the middle of the night to head to Charleston and follow her dream of owning her own store selling restored pieces of furniture.
Her father understood, but her relationship with her mother only became further strained as Teddi evinced yet again that she was not the daughter her mother hoped she would be.
I remember the first time I ever heard of 
I’ve long ago admitted that I have a bit of a cookbook obsession. In fact, I recently purged over 50 cookbooks from my collection because – much as I loved them – they were collecting more dust than providing inspiration. 
We all need a good beach read, and that describes 
I will admit here and now that I am not a golfer, and I never will be. I simply don’t have the patience or the time for the game, but my father adores it. Breaking his foot this spring was most heartbreaking to him simply because it meant he couldn’t hit a golf ball. He finally got the go ahead to try golfing – in a cart only – this week, and I’m pretty sure 
A family faces a tragedy no one should ever have to handle in 
is the story of Molly Melching, an American woman who’s had a great impact on the daily lives of many women living in places as diverse as Senegal and Somalia, but it is as much the story of the women themselves and their willingness to make hard choices to change the lives of their daughters and grand-daughters. It’s an inspiring read in many ways, not least as you learn of courageous women–and men too!–who are committed to change in the face of opposition, simply because they’ve become convinced it’s the right thing to do.
