Realistic and practical advice for parents of college-age kids. Parents whose kids are away at college have a tough tightrope to walk: they naturally want to stay connected to their children, yet they also need to let go. What's more, kids often send mixed messages: they crave space, but they rely on their parents' advice and assistance. Not surprisingly, it's hard to know when it's appropriate to get involved in your child's life and when it's better to back off. You're On Your Own (But I'm Here If You Need Me) helps parents identify the boundaries between necessary involvement and respect for their child's independence.

-Take 30 seconds a week to write one line about what's happening in your life - after four years, you will have a memory book to look back and remember all of the little things about college. -This makes a great gift for a high school graduate heading off to college or a first year freshman home for the holidays! -The book begins in August, but start anytime and fill in the year as you go. -Pages are labeled "August - Week 1" and "August - Week 2" to allow for flexibility. Skip a week? No problem. Just pick up where you left off.

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

If he had been with me everything would have been different... I wasn't with Finn on that August night. But I should've been. It was raining, of course. And he and Sylvie were arguing as he drove down the slick road. No one ever says what they were arguing about. Other people think it's not important. They do not know there is another story. The story that lurks between the facts. What they do not know—the cause of the argument—is crucial. So let me tell you...

-Take 30 seconds a week to write one line about what's happening in your life - after four years, you will have a memory book to look back and remember all of the little things about college.-This makes a great gift for a high school graduate heading off to college or a first-year freshman home for the holidays!-The book begins in August, but start anytime and fill in the year as you go.-Pages are labeled "August - Week 1" and "August - Week 2" to allow for flexibility. Skip a week? No problem. Just pick up where you left off.