I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out. That's when I've really learned. - Carol Burnett

Good Night and God Bless

Linda Burhan's book is filled with humor and heartfelt inspiration to aide anyone facing the challenge of caring for a loved one at the end of life. Her story offers us hope for human strength and understanding of weaknesses during a difficult time.

From the altar of God's House, the monsignor proclaimed, "Jo McCauley was a force of nature!" And she was. She was a breeze that brought laughter to everyone she met. She was a whirlwind of a volunteer and mother. She was the wind that carried her daughters and son forward on a life of love.

But dying and death are also forces of nature, and will not be denied. Linda's book draws us along an unexpected path ...

When Jo's adult children urged her to move to a senior community near her New York home they expected her to resist. She did more than that - she refused. Instead, she announced she was moving to Florida to be near Linda "because, out of all the kids, you make me laugh the most."

And Linda did, while caring for her mother through times of joy and times of pain as Jo's life on Earth came to a close ...

Good Night And God Bless The Book

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Goodnight and God Bless is a thoughtful, respectful, tender book about mothers and daughters. It exemplifies the bond and resiliency of this profound relationship, that even disease and death can't undo. You'll buy this book again and again--to give to your mom, your sisters, and your girlfriends.

~Carol O'Dell
Author, Mothering Mother: A Daughter's Humorous and Heartbreaking Memoir

The words of this beautiful book wrapped around my heart like a soft handmade afghan from Mama's house, and from the first paragraph I knew that I couldn't put it down until I had read and savored every word. Naturally, I was very pleased to see our Unity Church mentioned several times, but more than that, Linda spoke to my heart. I did not get to be by my own mother's side when she passed last year, and reading this tender story brought that all back to me. I laughed out loud with genuine joy at the author's honesty about her dear mother's lively personality. I wept tears of release that I hadn't known I had kept in. Never before have I seen so perfectly chronicled the tender unfolding of a life of love. I wished what everyone who reads this will wish for themselves and their loved ones: that they will all be as dearly loved and looked after as Linda's Mama. This is the kind of love that heals, that empowers, and that changes hearts. This is the book to give to special people, and when you read it, you will know the ones in your life who simply must read it next.

Leddy Hammock
Minister, Unity Church of Clearwater

Life is a journey from birth to birth: birth from the womb into this life and birth from this life into the next. Linda Burhans shares the tearful and joyful story of both daughter and midwife who accompanied and assisted her mother, Jo, in her birth from this realm of life into the next.

Willard N. (Buddy) Doyle
Psychosocial Team Leader/Ivory Team
The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast

Good Night & God Bless is a story that every family in America is going to be going through. We all at one time or another either will be the caregiver or the person needing the care! Let’s hope we can approach our days as a caregiver with the same determination, energy and love that Linda did for her mother.

Jane Morse-Swett
Director, Patient Advocate
Gulfcoast Oncology Foundation

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