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Today's daily excerpt comes from  How to Be a Good Mommy When You're Sick  by Emily Graves. The Foundational Five   As a mother, wife, and professional living with chronic illness, I have learned that there is nothing more important than having a solid foundation root and guide me through the thickets and meadows, the monsoons and the sunny days that dot my calendar. Both good days and bad days can pose challenges when you are living with chronic illness. I suppose no explanation is needed as to why the bad days—the days when my stomach is turning itself inside out, fatigue burrows deep into my bones, and my abdomen is swelling like a helium balloon—pose challenges. Without a solid foundation, though, the good days can quickly become bad days because I am apt to revel so much in my personal sunshine that I get burned. Having a solid foundation reminds me to take care of the basics and to keep the big picture in mind. They say that the unexamined life is not worth li...

  This week's book back story features How to Be a Good Mommy When You're Sick by Emily Graves. from the editor -- Unfortunately, the author has been incommunicado for several years, so all I have is a few notes from correspondence with her. It seems that she had some significance first-hand experience in chronic illness, in her case, rheumatoid arthritis at a young age. As she strove to maintain her professorial position and raise her son in a "normal" environment, she learned many useful things that could help others in similar circumstances -- not necessarily suffering from rheumatoid arthritis but from any debilitating illness. Library Journal was impressed with her book and provided an excellent review. And the book was off and running.  Purchase the paperback 25% discount with coupon code FF25 at the  MSI Press webstore . For more posts about this book, click HERE . For more book back stories, click HERE . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow MSI Pr...