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So whole: poems on reclaiming the pieces of ourselves and creating something new talks about looking back to move forward, new thoughts on god, our inner lives, embodied living, and books, books, books. If you long for the freedom to be your true self, if you ache for healing and wholeness for yourself and a broken world, if you need some lighthearted fun amid all the hard, Marla's got you. This book is a collection of mini-love letter poems to herself and all of us.

A "normal" American family decides that normal just isn't cutting it anymore. They start doing crazy things like visiting 52 zoos in 52 weeks, taking a 5-week trip to Cambodia, quitting school, and going down this crazy path called unschooling. They decided to take the road less traveled, and it has made all the difference.

Hey There, Word Artist! Yes, you. If you love words—reading them, writing them, hanging them on your wall and looking at them, putting them together in fun ways, making collages—you’re a word artist. Maybe you love words, but you’ve never really thought about “word art” as a thing. Word art is a really cool way to mix artistic mediums. It’s basically language + visual images. Words + pictures. In this book, there are all kinds of words you can cut out and add to any photo, illustration, painting—whatever—to create your own word art. And hopefully you’ll use your own ...

After author Marla Taviano wrote unbelieve, a book of poems chronicling her faith deconstruction, her plan was to move on from white evangelical Christianity to bigger, lovelier, more all-embracing thoughts. But she couldn’t do it. Why? Because she was still jaded—and knew there was work left to do.

Other people's marriages look perfect. Yours doesn't. And you've only been married 27 days! For years, you dreamed about meeting Mr. Right, and finally you found him. Next came romantic dates, then a beautiful wedding, and now…reality! Is married life a little different than you thought it would be--or maybe a lot different? Do you wonder if something is wrong, if other people feel the same way about their new marriages? Are you sometimes intimidated by wives who seem to have it all together? Marla Taviano has been there. She knows what it's like to adjust from unrealistic expectations to...

The internet gets a bad rap—with good reason. But as the weird and witty Marla Taviano will tell you—there’s a warm and fuzzy side to the web as well. Marla dipped her toes in the pool of social networking six years ago at the gentle insistence of her web guru husband. And—wait for the cliché—it changed her life. Since that first blog post in late 2005, she’s connected with oodles of people in real, personal ways, including meeting a couple hundred of her new pals face-to-face. In the summer of 2008, Marla and her family spontaneously embarked on a year-long quest to visit 52 ...