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“I met you at the Center for Politics at UVA in June when you spoke there. I believe with all my heart that you were sent there to speak directly to me. After hearing your story that afternoon, I decided to leap. I have a real sense of purpose now and truly believe that I am where I belong. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for inspiring me. I am proof that at 51, and five years out of a divorce, you can finally put yourself first, stop doing what everyone else told you to do all your life, take wing, and fly. Life is too short - carpe diem!” Cathi Wilson
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"Martha Randolph Carr invites the reader to a journey through the 'change stories'... You will see parallels in your own life's victories."
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"Martha Randolph Carr makes a strong case that the Victorian image painted by Dickens of orphanages is untrue in modern day America... A PLACE TO CALL HOME will add to the debate of what is best for an orphaned or troubled child as Ms. Carr brings REFs into the social conscience of choice." Harriet Klausner Reviews
The modern-day success story of America's orphanages and how they're successfully raising some of the 600,000 children in need of a loving stable home. The story of the homes and the incredible journey Martha and her teenage son, Louie, take to build a new life will inspire and teach everyone how to let go, risk bigger and believe in the possibilities.
"[Martha Randolph] Carr excels at looking for the human dimension. When she tackles an issue, she explains the connections to real people and the real ramifications for their lives. She then buttresses her analysis with prose that is at once intellectually playful and vivid. That is a powerful combination."
-- Geitner Simmons, editorial page editor, Omaha World-Herald
Knowing what to do is hard. Knowing how to get there can be even harder. No one plan fits every person.
Let my words act as a guide, an atlas of maps. There are different pages, each offering another way of looking at living. Different ways of discovering the same ideas. And that’s the way we find our own strengths, our own desires, our own road map. A little here, a little there, one piece at a time.
Read a story from More Words and go fix dinner. Check in later with Dear Martha at www.IdealLives.com and see what questions of a camp for a child with autism, or homework tips for someone with ADD were asked by someone else. Find a few moments in the middle of the day and read an excerpt from The Sitting Sisters.
A small word, something seen or read will seep in to help you figure out how to take the next step out into a life chosen, rather than only lived.
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The Chattanooga Free Press said about, WIRED, “Every bit as good as Mary Higgins Clark’s highly successful novels of psychological suspense. Suspenseful and entertaining…” and Library Journal wrote, “From page one through the last chapter, Carr takes the reader on a quick-paced and easy-flowing tour of murder, suspense and steamy romance. Be prepared to stay up past your bedtime with this one.” The Cleveland Plain Dealer said, “What works here is how good willed blacks and whites learn to like and respect each other and that works very well indeed.”
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The second novel, THE SITTING SISTERS, has the same kind of appeal, bringing humor, strength and finally peace to a family who had drifted apart. Told through the eyes of one of four daughters, Taliaferro Ervin, ‘Tollie’, THE SITTING SISTERS is the story of the prodigal daughter. The novel opens with the sisters returning home to the fictional South Carolina barrier island of Kelsal Island to spend time with their gravely ill father, an Episcopal minister. As in the first novel, the story is woven together with a mystery, assumptions, humor, anger, family ties and a look at how different cultures live side by side without ever glancing over the fence. Tollie returns home, resolved to do her duty and get out as soon as politely possible, sure she has outgrown a populace with a limited horizon. What she finds is another view of the past, romance, a mystery, and a grace she didn’t expect.
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