Sitting Pretty Or Sitting Duck

For the first time in history, women control more than 50% of the private wealth in the United States . as they lay claim to this unprecedented amount of wealth, have they taken all the steps necessary to protect their shares from waste, squander, or depletion? Many have not... and will let a good portion slip through their fingers. Whether you are 30, 40, 50, or 60 years old or older... are married, divorced, widowed, single, or partnered... or have kids, a job, a business, or an inheritance... if you do not use precaution in handling your financial affairs, you could find yourself with lighter pockets. Many women have seen their fortunes destroyed by failing to put measures in place to ward off life's inevitable attacks on their financial resources. Sitting Pretty or Sitting Duck lays out what a woman needs to do to protect herself financially - no matter the economic times, and no matter the personal circumstances. For, how well you defend and protect your money today may determine the quality of your life tomorrow.

Max the duck volunteers to help babysit for puppy Anabel, unaware of all the mischief a puppy can get into.

A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most. Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted as something monstrous (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), inspirational (Helen Keller), or angelic (Forrest Gump). None of this felt right; and as she got older, she longed for more stories that allowed disability to be complex and ordinary, uncomfortable and fine, painful and fulfilling. Writing about the rhythms and textures of what it means to live in a body that doesn’t fit, Rebekah reflects on everything from the complications of kindness and charity, living both independently and dependently, experiencing intimacy, and how the pervasiveness of ableism in our everyday media directly translates to everyday life. Disability affects all of us, directly or indirectly, at one point or another. By exploring this truth in poignant and lyrical essays, Taussig illustrates the need for more stories and more voices to understand the diversity of humanity. Sitting Pretty challenges us as a society to be patient and vigilant, practical and imaginative, kind and relentless, as we set to work to write an entirely different story.

For the first time in history, women control more than 50% of the private wealth in the United States. As they lay claim to this unprecedented wealth, have they taken all the steps necessary to protect their shares from waste, squander, or depletion? Many have not, and will let a good portion slip through their fingers. Whether you are married, single, divorced, or widowed, have billions, millions, or thousands of dollars, if you do not use precaution in handling your financial affairs, you could lose the bulk of your assets. How well you defend and protect your money today may determine the quality of your life tomorrow. Sitting Pretty or Sitting Duck lays out what a woman needs to do to protect herself financially -- no matter the economic times, and no matter the personal circumstance.

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