Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m going to share two stories with you from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Time for Christmas. There’s something about the holiday season that sends parents into overdrive, with all the planning and moving parts, and strategizing about gifts and hoping that children who are grown and gone will still come home for the holidays. And that often involves a little motherly scheming, which is what our two stories are about today.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m going to share a couple of stories with you from our new holiday book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Time for Christmas. We get a lot of stories from people about how their pets do Christmas. You know if you have a dog or a cat you’re probably adding a gift for your four legged friend to your holiday shopping list, because everyone in the family gets to enjoy the holidays. And cats and dogs really do love the decorations, the special foods, and the gifts they receive. And Christmas trees – they really do love Christmas trees, sometimes TOO much.

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Hey everyone, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today we have a special guest, New York Times bestselling author Brad Meltzer. Brad Meltzer is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lightning Rod,The Escape Artist, and eleven other bestselling thrillers. He also writes non-fiction books like The Nazi Conspiracy, about a secret plot to kill FDR, Stalin, and Winston Churchill at the height of WWII – and the Ordinary People Change the World kids book series.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m going to share a couple of stories with you from our new holiday book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Time for Christmas. Of course, the holidays are the time of year when we feel the loss of loved ones pretty hard, thinking back to the last holidays we spent with them and the traditions they were part of. Jamie Cahill gave us a story about this, regarding her grandmother, who loved Christmas and shared many traditions with her grandchildren and then her great-grandchildren, Jamie’s three kids. The kids would snuggle in their great-grandmother’s lap as she read them the same Christmas stories she had read to Jamie.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m going to share a few stories with you from our newest book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Well That Was Funny. If laughter is the best medicine, this book is your prescription. I’ve been sharing stories from the book for the last couple of months, and today will be the last episode about this book, so we’re going out with a bang, with six stories today, about six ways to find the humor in everyday life.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m going to share several stories from Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Advice that Changed My Life. You know I’ve been talking about this book for the last couple of months as I’m really excited about the great advice it contains. I’ve already implemented some of that advice myself, and today I want to share five pieces of life changing advice that are sure to resonate with you, taken from five stories in the collection.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m going to share a couple of stories with you from our newest book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Well THAT Was Funny. We’ve gathered some great storytellers in this book, to document the mishaps and misadventures of everyday life. One of the topics that came up a lot in the stories was technology, and specifically technology snafus.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m going to share five fun stories with you from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Angels and the Miraculous—about Five ways that angels and miracles manifested in the lives of our contributors when they were least expected. 

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m going to share a couple of stories with you from our newest book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Time for Christmas. Thanksgiving is almost here, and then it will be time to get serious about those Hanukkah and Christmas lists, but it doesn’t have to be stressful. People will really know if you are giving from your heart, and that’s what matters.

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Hey, it’s Amy Newmark with your Chicken Soup for the Soul, and today I’m going to share a couple of stories with you from our newest book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Time for Christmas. Today’s stories are about the most amazing Christmas miracles; I was really pleased to get these stories for our book. You’re about to see why!

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