In lyrical prose, award-winning author and professional caregiver Lynn Scott shares her insights and the love she found in an unlikely place. "A Joyful Encounter" parallels her experience caring for Marietta, an Alzheimer patient, with that of her own mother, who died twenty years before with dementia. This love story explores the wisdom, wit, and irony that transfers from Scott's patients to her own heart, and allows her to forgive her mother, and more importantly, herself, for their difficult past.

Lynn Scott, senior caregiver and former Director of the Children's Program at the Center...

NOTES FROM THE OTHER SIDE - Stories From the Afterlife, Wisdom For the Living. A treasure of true and compelling accounts from twenty-one people who died yet wish to communicate their newfound wisdom regarding life from the perspective of the afterlife. Each story is as unique as the person telling it, from the elderly physician who did not believe in an afterlife, to the Chinese brother and sister who reunite in death after a lifetime apart. While the majority of the journeys are comforting, a few are not until the person comes to terms with their conscience and a place of peace with God....