Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
On Love:
White gardenia / Marsha Arons
Words from the heart / Bobbie Lippman
Mama's soup pot / Leo Buscaglia
Just in time / Dan Clark
Gifts of the heart / Sheryl Nicholson
Other woman / David Farrell
Ramona's touch / Betty Aboussie Ellis
Are you God? / Dan Clark
Electric candlesticks / Marsha Arons
More than a scholarship / Stephanie Bullock
It couldn't hurt / Sandy Ezrine
Good night kiss / Phyllis Volkens
Gifts / Page Lambert
1,716 letters / Louise Shimoff
Martha's secret ingredient / Reminisce magazine
On Attitude And Self-Esteem:
Be a queen / Oprah Winfrey
Mama's plan / Marion Bond West
Tale of two cities / Best of bits a & pieces
Where do the mermaids stand? / Robert Fulghum
Pirate / Marjorie Walle
So-what do you grow? / Philip Chard
Grandma Ruby / Lynn Robertson
Problem or solution? / Edgar Bledsoe
Just the way you are / Jennifer Read Hawthorne
True beauty / Charlotte Ward
Angela's word / Barbara K Bassett
Just say yes / Fran Capo
Gift of gab / Lynn Rogers Petrak
I was a sixth-grade scarecrow / Linda Jessup
Overcoming Obstacles:
If there's a will / Kathie Lee Gifford and Stacey Nasalroad
We've come a long way / Pat Bonney Shepherd
Justice has been served / Best of bits & pieces
No hair day / Alison Lambert with Jennifer Rosenfeld
Just like you / Carol Price
Little red wagons / Patricia Lorenz
My father's lessons / Cathy Downs
Who to believe? / More sower's seeds
Marks of life / Diana Golden
Soaring free / Laurie Waldron
Tears of joy / Joan Fountain with Carol Kline
On Marriage:
Home forever / Jean Bole
Little holiday magic / K M Jenkins
Paris in the springtime / Jennifer Read Hawthorne
Marriage advice from 1886 / Jane Wells
Handful of emeralds / Rebecca Christian
What women don't understand about guys / Dave Barry
Lost and found / Elinor Daily Hall
Grandpa's valentine / Elaine Reese
Soldier's last letter / Major Sullivan Ballou
Love like that / Linda Ellerbee
All the days of my life / Jeanne Marie Laskas
On Motherhood:
It will change your life / Dale Hanon Bourke
As I watch you sleep / Diane Loomans
To my grown-up son / Author unknown
Running away / Lois Krueger
Taking a break / Best of bits & pieces
Help wanted-the ideal mother / Joan Beck
Graduation day / Mary Ann Detzler
Mother's letter to the world / Author unknown
To give the fit of life / Patty Hansen
Mother's day / Sharon Nicola Cramer
Special Moments:
In a hurry / Gina Barrett Schlesinger
No small act of kindness / Donna Wick
Last jar of jelly / Andy Skidmore
Christmas story / Beverly M Bartlett
Who won? / Dan Clark
Bush sneakers / Christine Harris-Amos with Cliff Marsh
Feather light / Melody Arnett
365 days / Rosemarie Giessinger
Spots of a different color / Grazina Smith
Live Your Dream:
Wind beneath her wings / Carol Kline with Jean Harper
What do you want to be? / Rev Teri Johnson
Hello, Dolly! / Dolly Parton
Finding my wings / Sue Augustine
Grandma Moses and me / Liah Kraft-Kristaine
We're all here to learn / Charles Slack
Room of one's own / Liah Kraft-Kristaine
Meeting Betty Furness / Barbara Haines Howett
On Aging:
Keeping up with Granny-and the "old guys" / Teresa Bloomingdale
Dancin' Grannie / Beverly Gemingniani with Carol Kline
Romance of the '90s for those in their 70s / Lillian Darr
Bessie / Bessie Delaney
Are we having fun yet? / Kim Miller
Higher Wisdom:
Asking for miracles / Maya Angelou
Wise woman's stone / Best of bits & pieces
Let it be / K Lynn Towse with Mary L Towse
We are not alone / Mary L Miller
Hijacking / K Bernard
Miracle in Toronto / Sue West
War story / Maureen Read
Connection / Susan B Wilson
Higher love / Suzanne Thomas Lawlor
I wonder why things are the way they are / Christy Carter Koski
Across The Generations:
On giving birth / Kay Cordell Whitaker
Doll for Great-Grandmother / Jacqueline Hickey
Walking one another home / Rita Bresnahan
Making of a woman / Doni Tamblyn
Tribute to Dad / Debra Halperin Poneman
Memories of a childhood past / Sasha Williams
Threads that bind / Ann Seely
Praise to the women on my journey / Rev Mellissa M Bowers
More chicken soup?
Supporting women of the world
Who is Jack Canfield?
Who is Mark Victor Hansen?
Who is Jennifer Read Hawthorne?
Who is Marci Shimoff?
Contributors
Permissions (continued)

This fresh serving of "Chicken Soup" stories for and about women features contributions from Mary Kay Ash, Leo Buscaglia, Robert Fulghum, Bessie Delaney, Erma Bombeck, and others

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