1. Love You Forever. Robert Munsch.
2. Into the Wilderness. Stephen Lyman.
3. Leaves From A Child’s Garden Of Verses. Robert Louis Stevenson.
4. Mother West Wind Series. Thornton W. Burgess.
5. Life Lessons. Robert C. Savage.
6. The Fall of Freddie the Leaf. Leo Buscaglia, Ph.D.
7. Friends. Jerry Gillies.
8. God Moments For Women. Carolyn Larsen.
9. Favorite Poems: Old and New. Helen Ferris.
10. On The Day You Were Born. Debra Frasier.
11. Listening To Nature: How To Deepen Your Awareness of Nature. Joseph Cornell.
12. Someone Special. Marilee Zdenek.
13. Angel Kisses. Sandra Kuck.
14. The Little Prince. Antoine De Saint-Exupery.
15. The Girl, the Rock, and the Water. Caryn L. Summers, R.N.
16. Any Books By Gene Stratton-Porter.
17. Bedside Blessings. Charles Swindoll.
18. 50 Things You Need To Know About Heaven. Dr. John Hart.
19. Bedside Prayers. June Cotner.
20. Total Forgiveness. R.T. Kindall.
21. The Gift of Therapy. Irvin D. Yalom, M.D.

While I was growing up, I lived a very sheltered life. I had lived in four different agencies that cared for children by the time I was eighteen. My social skills were limited and I had never traveled anywhere until I entered college.

In college, I was fortunate in finding  work while I attended school. I learned how to spend money on root beer floats and hamburgers. I didn’t have a car and most students who lived in the dorms  stayed on campus for lack of transportation. We became a close-knit community out in the middle of no where, far from the rest of civilization.

As a freshman, our stately institution created an initiation for the first year students. It was called “Fish Week.” I had to wear a dorky looking cardboard hat on my head that stayed in place with an elastic string that rested under the chin. Trust me, it…