Next time you're waiting—at the doctor's office, in the airport, or on the bus—stop stressing and start creating! Perfectly sized to fit into a purse, pack, or pocket, Create While You Wait will help you color your day brighter wherever you go.

For the Love of Teachers is a tribute to those who possess the remarkable ability to exercise patience and understanding and to offer guidance along an unfamiliar path.

From teaching us to tie our shoes to parallel park, from outfitting us for our first dance or our first day in the dorm room, our moms have been our chief counselors, cheerleaders, critics, chauffeurs, and chefs.

Affirmations are a way to discover personal awareness, spiritual potential and self-regard. Reading this book will give you an opportunity to nurture yourself and learn who you are and who you want to become.

Words can inspire, motivate and change us if we let them. Words can lift us to action. Words can move us to anger and rage or to love and tears. Most important, words can heal.

All of us need positive affirmation throughout our lives. As children, these powerful messages helped us to know that we were worthwhile, that it was all right to want food and to be touched, and that our very existence was a precious gift.

There is a point in our lives when we seem to stand in the center of our own decision about who we are and how we want to be.