Excess Baggage

Excess Baggage
Title Excess Baggage PDF eBook
Author Tracey Carisch
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 348
Release 2018-08-14
Genre Travel
ISBN 1631524127

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Tracey Carisch thought she had it all. As a wife, mother, and successful executive, she seemed to be living the modern American dream. But one night, a panic attack sent her tumbling into an existential crisis and questioning everything about her life. That’s when she and her husband made a decision that shocked their family and friends: they sold everything they owned, pulled their three young daughters out of school, and became a family of wandering globetrotters. Loaded with hilarious mishaps as well as deeply meaningful revelations, Excess Baggage chronicles the Carisch family’s extraordinary, eighteen-month adventure across six continents. As they navigate the trials and tribulations of international travel, the family encounters unique people and bizarre situations that teach them about the world—and themselves. Carisch’s candid and insightful account of her family’s journey will have you laughing out loud, shedding a few tears, and bringing the lessons of family travel into your own life . . . without ever having to leave home.

Excess Baggage

Excess Baggage
Title Excess Baggage PDF eBook
Author Judith Sills
Publisher Viking Press
Pages 276
Release 1993-01-01
Genre Psychology
ISBN 9780670840625

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Shows how to identify character traits--such as needing to be right, feeling superior, and holding grudges--that can get in the way of personal growth, and offers practical advice for dealing with them

Excess Baggage

Excess Baggage
Title Excess Baggage PDF eBook
Author Patrick Linggard
Publisher Xlibris Corporation
Pages 109
Release 2010-05-04
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1450062334

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Excess Baggage

Excess Baggage
Title Excess Baggage PDF eBook
Author Karen Ma
Publisher China Books & Periodicals
Pages 0
Release 2013
Genre Chinese
ISBN 9780835100465

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With vivid prose, Karen Ma takes us on a momentous journey with a Chinese family as it tries to grow new roots in a foreign land."-Geling Yan, author of Banquet Bug, White Snake, and The Flowers of War Karen Ma's debut novel chronicles two Chinese sisters, one raised in China during the desolate years of the Cultural Revolution; the other in Japan during the freewheeling years of bubble capitalism. They reunite as adults in Tokyo in the early 1990s, and as the sisters circle warily, their distrust grows, fueled by family lies and secrets. Exploring themes of identity, alienation, love, jealousy, and family obligations in the face of cultural and geographic adversity, ultimately each must confront a fundamental question: what's the meaning of home when your roots aren't secure? Karen Ma is the author of The Modern Madame Butterfly (Tuttle Publishing, 2006). She has lived a combined twenty years in China and Japan working as a writer and journalist."

Excess Baggage

Excess Baggage
Title Excess Baggage PDF eBook
Author Tracy Carnes
Publisher iUniverse
Pages 202
Release 2008-03
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0595477445

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Kelly Carmichael can't seem to find her niche in life. Her father pushes her in one direction while her mother pulls her in another. Now almost thirty, she grows weary of pursuing someone else's happiness. But just when she believes she has found the perfect career and the love of her life in Memphis, her father dies. Now she is forced to give up her dream job to take care of the mother she doesn't understand and deal with the harsh reality of a father she thought she knew. When she is finally ready to resume her life in Memphis, she is set back once again, this time with ulcerative colitis and the horrible changes in her body she must deal with as she fights to keep her boyfriend, gets to know her mother, and adjusts to her changing life in a small southern town. With this humorous and honest novel, Tracy Lea Carnes offers up an inspiring glimpse at ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease through the eyes of a thirty-year-old woman dealing with her diagnosis, its treatment and the complications it brings into her life. Today, 1.4 million people live with some form of IBD (irritable bowl disease) in the U.S. and an estimated 750,000 live with an ostomy. Like the heroine in Excess Baggage, Kelly Carmichael, most people on average are diagnosed with ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease in their early to mid-30s, though the disease can strike at any age. Despite its extensive impact on the lives of many young adult Americans, ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease is low on our radar. Focusing our attention by drawing from her own experience, Tracy Lea Carnes has written a story that needs to be told. A groundbreaking novel, Excess Baggage shatters convention bringing colitis and Crohn's disease awareness into the national spotlight.

Excess Baggage

Excess Baggage
Title Excess Baggage PDF eBook
Author Jodi Culliney
Publisher Brooklyn Prairie Publishing
Pages 270
Release 2024-06-06
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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Tess and Sam meet unexpectedly on a cross-country train. Sparks soon fly but one of them is not being honest and it won’t be long before their passionate romance is derailed. It turns out that these strangers on a train were not really strangers at all…

Excess Baggage

Excess Baggage
Title Excess Baggage PDF eBook
Author Ellen Rosskam
Publisher Routledge
Pages 300
Release 2018-10-26
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1351844504

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Based on groundbreaking research on the working conditions of airport check-in workers in two countries, a previously unstudied category of predominantly women workers, Ellen Rosskam describes a form of work characterized as modern-day Taylorism. An occupation greatly affected by new forms of work organization and management practices-caught in the throes of rapid change due to international competition, alliances, mergers, and the application of cost-efficiency strategies-check-in work has been undermined in recent years by the adverse effects of liberalization and technological change.By peeling away the veneer of glamour associated with airport check-in work, Rosskam reveals how changes in work organization in this sector have de-skilled, disempowered, and ultimately demoralized workers. In "Excess Baggage", weaving through the psychological distress, physical pain from musculoskeletal disorders, strain, and violence that check-in workers experience and describe in their own words, a picture emerges of a job perceived to be "safe," "clean," "glamour girl" work, but which is comparable to industrial workplaces that require heavy manual lifting, obligingly performed in skirts, dresses, and pretty little shoes.