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  From Readers' Favorite -- C amping is where you spend a small fortune to live like the homeless.” Larry MacDonald is direct and cleverly witty in his detailed writing of what life can be like living in a recreational vehicle, especially during quarantine.  Diary of an RVer During Quarantine is a short book that you will find entertaining and informative. For the full review, click HERE For more posts on Larry MacDonald and his books, click HERE .

Released today: 10 Quick Homework Tips . with special advise for activities during a quarantine. Written by two teachers with 40 years of combined experience: Cindy McKinley Alder and Patti Trombly.   Check out their other book that also has many activities that can be done during a pandemic: 365 Teacher Secrets for Parents . And here is another source of hood activities to help during quarantine from Black Parenting Magazine: click here .

Written by Colette McNeil to help parents of children with autism through the shelter-at-home days of the ongoing pandemic, this little book is eye-opening and helpful for any day at home with a child with autism. Bound to inspire with new ways of interaction with positive ioutcomes. Colette has many years of experience as a teacher of children with autism and as an aunt of a child with autism. She knows whereof she writes. Check out her other book on autism, Understanding the Challenge of "No" for Children with Autism . See posts by and about Colette and her books HERE .

t didn’t take me long to come up with a list of jobs that were long overdue. Washing and waxing the truck and trailer pretty much got me through the first week. Each day, I congratulated myself for a job-well-done with a “Quarantini”…which tastes just like a martini except that you drink it at home alone! And you don’t even have to wait for Happy Hour—when you’re confined in a trailer, you can be happy at 11:00 in the morning! As they say in the RV world, it’s 5 o’clock somewhere! Larry is the author of three MSI books: Read more posts about Larry MacDonald and his books HERE .

Released this week, Diary of an RVer in Quarantine by Larry MacDonald. This nonfiction book provides a humorous glimpse into a couple’s strategies for surviving two weeks of quarantine within the confines of their RV. The author’s diary includes his never-ending “to-do” list as well as the couple’s routine and unique activities, such as ordering groceries and restaurant meals online for delivery to their RV site, playing games, and learning new skills such as baking and playing the ukulele. A major portion of the book is devoted to how full-time RVers might occupy their time fruitfully while staying cooped up during the COVID-19 pandemic. Reading RV magazines and related books and planning an RV adventure when restrictions are lift ed is complemented with excerpts provided from two of the author’s books. Words of wisdom abound: “Stay at home, wash your hands, and enjoy my books.” See also Larry's other books. RV Oopsies  -- funny and helpful! One of our most popu

Alone with Ourselves  In therapy sessions, I have been asking my patients how they are coping with the confinement, loneliness, and fear. Regarding their quarantine, I ask if they experience it more as a prison or retreat. Almost all have told me that it feels mostly like a retreat. Perhaps my encouraging them to relax and observe themselves is paying some dividends. For example, one insight patient, commenting on the lock down, said, “If we allow fear to take over, we’re exchanging prisons and giving ourselves a life sentence.” However, as the quarantine drags on for weeks, I suspect they may change their tunes. Surprisingly, my most emotionally fragile patients struggle little with the virus fear. They do not sweat the big stuff, only the small stuff. For example, they may agonize for years about a rude comment. My patients also complain about so much closeness with restless, bickering kids and bored partners that, they say jokingly, it will eventually lead to the doorst

MSI Press authors are undertaking a special project to help readers weather the pandemic (quarantine). Writing in their various areas of specialty, the authors address issues of psychological well being, health, parenting, spirituality, and number of other related areas of stress and concern associated with the pandemic. To see the list of books in progress, check out our home page HERE . As more books are offered by our authors, they will be added to the list. For example, in the pipeline, but not yet shown on the home page, are three books whose cover designs are still in progress: 10 Quick Homework Tips (McKinley Alder & Trombly) How to Stay Calm in Chaos. (Gentile) Old and On Hold . (Cooper) So, check back weekly to see where these books stand. And note, that they can be pre-ordered at 25% discount, using the code FF25. Since the books are already easy on the pocket, this is a pretty good deal. Take two -- or three!* *Printing and shipping times dur

Proudly announcing the release of The Pandemic and Hope , the first book in our pandemic series -- a set of books dedicated to helping people make it safely (mentally and physically) through the pandemic. These books are written by experts in their fields, who are also authors by their own right of other MSI Press books, and  information about new books to be released in this series can be found on the MSI Press home page . Dr. Ortman has authored three hig hly respected, beloved, and extremely well reviewed MSI Press books related to various forms of addiction--all relevant to these times: Anger Anonymous Anxiety Anonymous Depression Anonymous   Find more posts about and by Dr. Ortman HERE . Find more posts about the pandemic (quarantine) HERE . And take the precautions needed to STAY WELL!

Dr. Christina Fisanick, author of The Optimistic Food Addict , was recently interviewed by Refinery29 about binge eating disorder during a quarantine. The article contains an interesting and helpful video. Read/view the article and video HERE .