WORDS FROM YOUR SISTER is a scriptural devotional with scriptures from the ESV Version of the Holy Bible and the Christian experiences of Angelia Vernon Menchan in her straight talking, let's learn together cadence. The intent is to share and inspire through God's word.

April and Amelie are twins but it would not be possible for twins to be more different...or are they? April is the good sister with a successful life and a husband and the only things she wants is a baby... Amelie on the other hand is a drunken, druggie who actually has the baby April wants but she is not inclined to give in to her perfect sister... or is she?

Anise woke up exhausted. She had spent the night before drinking and felt like she was dipped in a bottle of tequila but the one thing on her mind was going to church. She had dreamed about her grandma, mama and aunt in one night and they each told her, "Baby, the Lord is still waiting." It had been years. She was thirty-seven, and more than half her life had been spent since then. Standing in the mirror, she took her own measure and knew it was only God who kept her. The fact she looked halfway decent was a miracle and as her grandma used to say, "Proof that Jesus was real." Anise was going...

Center City has a new guard and they are continuing to tradition of family and community with their own sense of style, class and drama.

Sister You Are More Than Your assETS is a mentor's outreach to young sisters. Angelia Vernon Menchan has penned a timely book sharing her life experiences as a growing and grown woman in overcoming sometimes daunting experiences. It also speaks to the way in which women can love, support and empower other women, sometimes simply by being there. This book is in no way a fix for the ills of society and will not speak to every reader. It is meant for those who can take what's needed and pass on the rest.

I am a woman and was raised by women. My mom was a single woman of thirty when I was born and immediately I was thrust and immersed into the culture of women, my single mother, widowed grandmother, married godmother, two married aunts, one widowed aunt, one divorced aunt and another single aunt. My grandmother bore ten children, six of whom were women, my mom two women children, two aunts one woman child and one man child, three aunts no children and my godmother one woman child. In their presence I learned what it meant to be a woman in all its permeations. I have also spent most of my life...

Arista was a widow after fifteen years of marriage and there was nothing she wanted more than to be alone and figure out what she would be doing for the rest of her life. She was a widow at fifty; a widow who had not known the intimacy of a man's touch in five years, she was numb.