Family Ties: The Legacy of Love
We are bound to our families with ties of love, tears, and history. In Family Ties, bestselling author Lois Wyse explores with wit and insight both the visible and the invisible relationships that connect the generations.
From stories of marriages (both old and new), babies (both natural-born and adopted), siblings, grand-parents, and those friends who are loved like family, Wyse has woven a collection that will touch the hearts of all readers.
You will meet a father who never knew he had a daughter, a high-powered career woman who went to China in order to become a mother, a little girl who finds a husband for her widowed mother (and a father for herself), a grandmother who pulls her entire family together to welcome a long-lost grandchild — and, between the lines, stories of the love and understanding that make all families stronger.
Here, too, is Lois Wyse's own story of a month she spent in southern France with fifteen members of her amalgamated family: adult children and stepchildren, in-laws, and grandchildren, hailing from different cities. With candor and humor, she tells how three generations of one family grew closer and came to understand their relationships in ways that will always color and strengthen their lives.
Family Ties celebrates the bonds that enrich our own families. Delightful and endlessly true, this is a perfect book for everyone from mothers and fathers to grandchildren, stepdaughters, sons-in-law, and second cousins once removed — all of us for whom family is the core of life.
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Family Ties: The Legacy of Love
We are bound to our families with ties of love, tears, and history. In Family Ties, bestselling author Lois Wyse explores with wit and insight both the visible and the invisible relationships that connect the generations.
From stories of marriages (both old and new), babies (both natural-born and adopted), siblings, grand-parents, and those friends who are loved like family, Wyse has woven a collection that will touch the hearts of all readers.
You will meet a father who never knew he had a daughter, a high-powered career woman who went to China in order to become a mother, a little girl who finds a husband for her widowed mother (and a father for herself), a grandmother who pulls her entire family together to welcome a long-lost grandchild — and, between the lines, stories of the love and understanding that make all families stronger.
Here, too, is Lois Wyse's own story of a month she spent in southern France with fifteen members of her amalgamated family: adult children and stepchildren, in-laws, and grandchildren, hailing from different cities. With candor and humor, she tells how three generations of one family grew closer and came to understand their relationships in ways that will always color and strengthen their lives.
Family Ties celebrates the bonds that enrich our own families. Delightful and endlessly true, this is a perfect book for everyone from mothers and fathers to grandchildren, stepdaughters, sons-in-law, and second cousins once removed — all of us for whom family is the core of life.
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Family Ties: The Legacy of Love

Family Ties: The Legacy of Love

by Lois Wyse
Family Ties: The Legacy of Love

Family Ties: The Legacy of Love

by Lois Wyse

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We are bound to our families with ties of love, tears, and history. In Family Ties, bestselling author Lois Wyse explores with wit and insight both the visible and the invisible relationships that connect the generations.
From stories of marriages (both old and new), babies (both natural-born and adopted), siblings, grand-parents, and those friends who are loved like family, Wyse has woven a collection that will touch the hearts of all readers.
You will meet a father who never knew he had a daughter, a high-powered career woman who went to China in order to become a mother, a little girl who finds a husband for her widowed mother (and a father for herself), a grandmother who pulls her entire family together to welcome a long-lost grandchild — and, between the lines, stories of the love and understanding that make all families stronger.
Here, too, is Lois Wyse's own story of a month she spent in southern France with fifteen members of her amalgamated family: adult children and stepchildren, in-laws, and grandchildren, hailing from different cities. With candor and humor, she tells how three generations of one family grew closer and came to understand their relationships in ways that will always color and strengthen their lives.
Family Ties celebrates the bonds that enrich our own families. Delightful and endlessly true, this is a perfect book for everyone from mothers and fathers to grandchildren, stepdaughters, sons-in-law, and second cousins once removed — all of us for whom family is the core of life.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781476738420
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 02/02/2013
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Lois Wyse has published more than sixty books, including Women Make the Best Friends and the New York Times bestseller Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother. She has been a longtime contributing editor at Good Housekeeping. The president and cofounder of Wyse Advertising, she lives in New York City and East Hampton, New York.

Read an Excerpt

Family Dinner

I look around the table
And see those who mean
The most to me.


So why are my eyes
Filled with tears?


Because I also see
Those who are not there.

Copyright © 2001 by Garret Press

Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction

PART ONE The Children's Hour

First Words

Family Stories

The Gifted Child

The Awful Tooth

The Diplomat

Sister Act

Sisters Again

Small-Town Boy

The Children Deserve a Good Life

Her Father's Daughter

Generations of Love

Family Dinner

PART TWO Mom's the Word

Mother Load

The New, Improved Mother

Pioneer Mother

I Remember Your Mother

The Popcorn Report

What Do We Tell the Children?

Not a Word About This, Mother

Occupation: Mother

Are You Cheryl Doe?

Design for Living

PART THREE The Legacy of Love

The Family

Bonjour, Lolo

Welcome to Paradise

Trouble in Paradise

Cousin Cuisine

Shopping Italian-Style

French Lights

The Gentleman Caller

Isn't France a Topless Country?

The Family at Play

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Introduction

There are no applications, interviews, or previous experiences required for the job you'll hold all your life — the job of family member.

We are born to be sons and daughters and we are handed a collection of relatives. Then, as if it weren't tough enough playing with the family cards we're dealt at birth, we go ahead and create families of our own. Sometimes it's through marriage; sometimes it's through friendships that take on the characteristics of family ("Why didn't you call?" "Are you okay?" "Happy birthday.")

Sometimes the family is a blessing, sometimes a chore. Still, nothing in life lightens, brightens, or frightens us more than our family ties.

So here's to the family.

Here's to the mothers and daughters, the fathers and sons, the sisters and brothers, the aunts and uncles, the collections of cousins and grandparents and grandkids.

Here's to the halves, the steps, and the wholes.

Here's to the core of life, the family, and the histories and stories we make together.

Copyright © 2001 by Garret Press

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