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Newly Released November 2024
A Simple Tail is a feel-good book for all ages about three standard poodles loving and learning. A Simple Tail begins as all tales do with “Once Upon a Time,” but not in a Far Away Kingdom. Instead, it begins in two adjoining backyards in a small town nestled in the mountains of Western North Carolina. The story unfolds with Max and Nell going about the very important business of figuring if and how they can be friends, while struggling to understand how they can live happily and successfully with their human guardians, Ted and Emma. Another poodle, Dutch, is introduced into the puppy mix one unforgettable snowy day. And Max, for the very first time, is exposed to uncomfortable and confusing feelings, fearing there is no way he can garner Nell's attention like the "magnificent" Dutch can. The world of the three puppies expands beyond their backyards and their backyard friends as Ted, Emma and Charles, Dutch's guardian, reach out to each other in their search of how to train a puppy to be "a good citizen," a dog who is enjoyed and well behaved wherever it goes.
The guardians learn that being a pet owner is not just a privilege, but also a responsibility. By their networking, they fortuitously discover how to support their dogs in finding their own area of brilliance, thus introducing the reader to dog obedience school, agility training and the world of the show dog.
The reader learns that despite Max, Nell and Dutch being dogs, they each have their own unique personalities, charged with a range of emotions and a means of communicating not only with each other, but also with their guardians. The readers will find themselves rooting for each dog as it travels through the first year of life individually and together.
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"It’s hell fighting like this! I won’t do this anymore! What’s happened to us? You’re not the man I married. We hardly speak anymore, much less do anything together.”
C.J. faces the harsh reality he could become a two time divorcée. He chalked up his first marriage as a mistake, and simply let Cullen walk away without any thought to reconcile, despite him saying on their wedding day, this was the best decision of his life. And yet, the words he is hearing from his second wife, Leeta, are hauntingly familiar.
What if his first marriage wasn’t a mistake? What if he has just made the same wrong steps in both marriages? How does he save his second marriage from the same fate as his first? C.J. vowed to Leeta, “Till death do us part” and meant it. However, C.J. fears at the rate they were going, their death and parting might not be due to the grace of old age but due to their own rage.
One morning after another raucous fight with Leeta, C.J. is jogging down familiar streets, wondering,What exactly went wrong between Leeta and me? In the midst of his ruminations, a sign he has never noticed before catches his attention:
Jane H. Levy, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.
Office In Back.
Surprised by his own actions, C.J. finds himself standing in the waiting room confessing to Ms. Levy that he hasn’t been happy in his marriage for a long time. Too many fights that go on into the wee hours of the morning, and frequently he can’t even remember what started the fight in the first place.
Leeta skeptically agrees to join C.J. in counseling. And thus begins C.J.’s journey, as he desperately struggles to not have another failed marriage to a woman he loves.
“The easy part of any relationship is the falling in love part. The hard part is learning how to live with each other under the same roof.”