No Way Out of This: Loving a Partner with Alzheimer’s
Sue’s much-older husband, Fred, is a forgetful man. She’s always found that charming. But when his absentmindedness worsens into full-blown dementia, she suddenly finds herself dealing with his illness alone. Struggling to care for Fred and manage their two loveable but incorrigible dogs and still find time to write and play music, Sue constantly faces impossible choices. Tell people about his illness? Let him drive? Put him in an institution? Treat his medical problems, or let him go? Every decision feels wrong—but in the end, their love carries them through it all. For more about this book, visit https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qjrqFp67ysYPva2tAP8ZUiHbmvPbyqzm/view
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Between the Bridges–PD returns!
Book III of the Up Beaver Creek Series is available now from all your favorite booksellers. Having survived the death of her husband, a tsunami, and a rape attempt, PD Soares believes her new life on the Oregon coast is finally settling down. The music career she dreamed of when she left Montana with a new look and a new name is finally getting underway. She has a new home up Beaver Creek, a good job, and possibly a new romance, but it’s 2020, and life is about to take another turn. Or two or three. The whole year is one big riptide, but PD will have to swim her way out of it with a little help from her old friends and a new friend everyone calls The Witch.
“I just finished Between the Bridges. I bought it yesterday and finished this morning. What a great read! Love the characters, navigating Covid, a tsunami, a fire and the idiot who’s back in DC. What a ride and a lesson in endurance while we follow our joy.” –Reader Cedar Jernigan
Blue Chip Stamp Guitar!
My latest poetry chapbook follows my life of music and the love that never leaves me: my old six-string guitar. For information, visit The Poetry Box.
Published in April 2024 by MoonPath Press: Poems about dogs, living alone in the woods, and figuring life out one challenge at a time.
PD Soares has survived divorce, infertility, a dead second husband and a tsunami. You’d think that would be enough. In this sequel to Up Beaver Creek, PD is trying to figure out what happens next. Is it too soon for a new romance? Is it too late to become a professional musician? She is just beginning to find her way when a series of new crises knocks it all to bits. Luckily, she has friends and her partners in the Seal Rock Sound band to help her figure things out. Or does she?
We meet a colorful cast of coastal characters, including Donovan Green, known around town as the crazy artist who makes sculptures out of broken glass, pipes, and toilets; his niece Janey, who sings like an angel and speaks in exclamation points; the Rainbow Ladies Maryann and Dakota; Diana of Diana’s Diner; Helen Chan, who lost her home in the tsunami, and more. Each proves the road sign that declares their town “The Friendliest” tells the truth.
Love or Marriage: When You Can’t Have Both
It’s like this giant secret that is right in front of everyone. One in five women and even more men don’t have children—at least not their own. For more than half of them, it was not by choice. Their partners a) never wanted children, b) already had kids from a previous relationship, c) never quite felt ready for parenthood, d) had had a vasectomy, or e) had fertility problems. They are forced to make a choice between this man or woman they love and the children they might have had.
Love or Children features the best of more than 700 posts and comments from the Childless by Marriage blog. Sue Fagalde Lick and her readers unveil situations and feelings they wouldn’t dare tell their families, friends, partners, or even their therapists.
The Widow at the Piano: New! Order now from The Poetry Box or your favorite bookseller.
Gravel Road Ahead: These poems take the reader on a loving journey through Alzheimer’s Disease. Order your copy from Finishing Line Press or from your favorite bookseller.
Up Beaver Creek: In this novel, PD Soares is trying to start a new life, but everything is going wrong. Will she end up poor and pitiful? No way!
Unleashed in Oregon: best from the blog answers such questions as what is a Californigonian and what was waiting at the door that night.
Azorean Dreams (a novel): Newspaper reporter Chelsea Faust ignores her Portuguese heritage until she meets Simao Freitas and falls in love, but there are problems that may keep them apart.
Childless by Marriage: What do you do when you want children but your partner does not?
Freelancing for Newspapers: How do you get your stories on the pages of the newspaper? This book tells you how to write, market and publish your stories.
Shoes Full of Sand: Why would two Silicon Valley residents leave perfectly good jobs near their families for a new life on the Oregon Coast? Read and find out.
Stories Grandma Never Told: Portuguese-American women tell stories of moving to America, work, families, culture and traditions.
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