Amy Watson

Weaving culinary delights with an honest, appraising look at how we deal with the world when it becomes too much, How to be Okay is the comfort food we all need in these, well, crazy times. Kyle Davies is doing fine. She has her routine, after all, ingrained in her from years of working as a baker: wake up, make breakfast, prep the dough, make lunch, work the dough, make dinner, bake dessert, go to bed. Wash, rinse, repeat. It's a good routine. Comforting. Almost enough to help her forget the scars on her wrist, still healing from when she slit it a few weeks ago; that she lost her job at the bakery when she checked herself in as an inpatient at Hope House; then signed away all decisions about her life, medical care, and wellbeing to Dr. Booth (who may or may not be a hack). So, yeah, Kyle's doing just fine. Except that a new item's been added to her daily to-do list recently: stare out her window at the coffee shop (named, well...The Coffee Shop) across the street, and its hot owner, Jackson. It's healthy to have eye candy when you're locked in the psych ward, right? Something low risk to keep yourself distracted. So when Dr. Booth allows Kyle to leave the facility--two hours a day to go wherever she wants--she decides to up the stakes a little more. Why not visit? Why not see what Jackson's like in person? Turns out that Jackson's a jerk with a heart of gold, a deadly combination that Kyle finds herself drawn to more than she should be. (Aren't we all?) At a time when Dr. Booth delivers near-constant warnings about the dangers of romantic entanglements, Kyle is pulled further and further into Jackson's orbit. At first, the feeling of being truly taken care of is bliss, like floating on a wave. But at a time when Kyle is barely managing her own problems, she finds herself suddenly thrown into the deep end of someone else's. Dr. Booth may have been right after all: falling in love may be the thing that sends Kyle into a backslide she might never be able to crawl out of. Is Jackson too much for her to handle? Does love come at the cost of sanity?

How to Be Okay

Closer to Okay

This picture book uses the alphabet to introduce children to eighteenth-century Williamsburg. From A to Z, each of the illustrations is based on an activity or an object associated with colonial life that can be seen in Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Area today.

A Colonial Williamsburg ABC

A hairdresser becomes concerned when her baby cannot grow hair.

The Hairdresser's Baby

Here's an inescapable fact: you will need to know how people talk and react to whatever things you say. It is also important on how to choose the words and the how to approach a person to pick up a conversation, be it formal or casual. Conversations are important because they have the ability to resolve conflicts and find solutions to any situation you are in. A person with a good ability to talk and connect with others around him will always be in control in any situation he/she is put in. If you do not develop your conversational skills, you will be let down and ignored in a social circle. The core of a man's knowledge comes from interaction with different kinds of people. You have to possess a specific skill set that allows you to open up with other people and they should be able to give back the same to you.

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