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Preparation for loved ones for when you are just not there.

All too often, parents, mates or other family members die or go away suddenly without leaving important banking information, house and car maintenance records, PIN numbers, the location of keys, codes, phone numbers, addresses and so much more. Everyone wants to be more methodical in keeping such records and instructions, and Kathleen Fraser provides the guidebook to make it easy for those left behind.

Elegantly designed and tastefully illustrated, When I'm Gone is a practical fill-in record book and resource manual to help loved ones better handle all the little details of life when someone dies or is away for extended periods because of debilitating illness or other reasons. This book provides a place to give instructions not only concerning wills, funeral arrangements, insurance, lawyers and last wishes, but also about all the day-to-day details of the household.

This book includes useful information and space to write in notes on:

• Key contacts and the location of important documents, including wills and powers of attorney
• Medical care and advance medical directives (living wills)
• Setting up trusts and choosing guardians for children and other dependents
• Care of pets
• Finances and property
• Maintenance of homes and vehicles
• Access to and operation of computers
• Instructions for favorite belongings, from family heirlooms to the old set of golf clubs.

This is the practical guide to the essential data that anyone left behind, including any executor of a new estate, would love to find in a handy place.

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Customer Reviews (3)

Close, but no cigar.....
I purchased this book after reading a few book reviews.I expected it to be something other than it was.I anticipated a "one-place" journal where I could enter my thoughts and comments to those I left behind.However, I found this book to be a binder of the obvious.I learned nothing from it and will not use it at all.Save your money.The only thing good about this item is the title.

For the Obsessively Organized
This book is way overdone in my opinion. It appears to be for the average person who wants all their important information in one place for when the inevitable happens. But the volume of text is kind of overwhelming, and the amount of information seems to be way too much for the average person. I would say that this book is good for the very wealthy person who wants to leave behind a nice book for their family and friends to read when they pass.

When I'm Gone: Practical Notes For Those You Leave Behind (Spiral-bound)
This vendor provided great service. The product was well described, and service was fast. The product arrived in great condition. I would recommend this vendor. ... Read more

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This book examines the early work of William Carlos Williams in relationship to a women's tradition of American poetry, as represented by Mina Loy, Denise Levertov and Kathleen Fraser--three generations of women poets working in or directly from a modernist tradition.Linda Kinnahan traces notions of the feminine and the maternal that develop as Williams seeks to create a modern poetics.Positioning Williamas in relationship to these three generations of Anglo-American women, the book pursues two questions: what can women poets, writing with an informed awareness of Williams, teach us about his modernist poetics of contact, and just as importantly, what can they teach us about the process, for women, of constructing a self within a male-dominated tradition? ... Read more

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Rich and detailed poems by one of America's preeminent experimental writers. ... Read more

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A Beautiful Look at the Italian Landscape and Art
In Il Cuore, Kathleen Fraser's lovely poetry centers around the Italian landscape and Italian art.Two things that are, by their very nature, already infused with poetry, Fraser elaborates on these themes and exposes their underlying beauty.

She writes:The letter A is a plow/Was A/where/you made and/unmade your mind.../first hesitation/when you doubted/what you/thought you/were/looking for?

A highly stylized tool for observing and uncovering the world, language, in Fraser's hands, becomes poems of imagistic precision that uncover beauty and our own response to it.The twenty-five years of work in Il Cuore are poems of a disjunctive and fragmentary structure that still manage to convey a feeling of wholeness and completeness.The author makes use of mathematical diagrams, the shapes and shadings of letters as well as lyric odes to fashion lovely skeletal poetry whose dense pockets of energy and blank spaces create a palette of Impressionism, much in the way Debussy did with music.One example is Tree:One did hear/the flow of nearby branches/shear occasional and limp/yet this rawness/moves, is/moving/even sudden atrophy/of limb.

Fraser, who lives part time in Italy, knows her subject matter well and, with few words, manages to convey all the differences between what's seen, what's felt, what's said and most of all, what's only perceived.In one of Giotto's Arena chapel frescoes, Fraser sees:a salmon length of brick the same/as Virgin's gown, angel feathers/salmon flesh and roe/lifting one swift arc.She is a poet with the talent to perceive perception:motion (less leaves) blue sky/inlaid their branching/lightness/pale rose breadth/of shade/through intervals.

"The New," Fraser says, "comes forward in its edges in order to be itself."The poems in Il Cuore, so filled with lyric skeletal beauty, create impressions with their silences as much as they do with their carefully-chosen words.These are truly poems that cut deep and remain. ... Read more

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A young San Francisco boy is happiest when his seaman father returns home after a trip around the world. ... Read more

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Poetry. "DISCRETE CATEGORIES FORCED INTO COUPLING is consummate masterwork by a singuarly perceptive and articulate poet. Deceptively quiet in manner, its intimate foci and tone make clear the ground of our contemporary lives, our `being together' despite the distances of isolating thought. I love Kathleen Fraser's extraordinary intelligence, her persistent care for where she is--and for all those she finds there too"--Robert Creeley. "Here is a language of poetry that recognizes, beyond its intimacies, the intellectual and elusively sensate aspects of visual and literary aesthetic connection"--Carla Harryman. ... Read more

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Three poems: Etruscan Pages, Giotto : Arena, and when new time folds up. ... Read more

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Games for kids 4 to 16, plus tips on keeping them fun and fair for all participants.

Camp games are meant to be fun. Here are the very best camp-tested games for boys and girls aged 4 to 16, with easy-to-follow instructions and illustrations. The Frasers include indoor and outdoor games for both small and large groups, with some old favorites and lots of new, soon-to-be favorites.

The 175 Best Camp Games also includes advice on:

• Choosing the right game for the situation
• Starting and ending games
• Dealing with rule breakers
• Modifying games for varied abilities
• Assuring safety and good supervision.

This practical guide is easy to use, and the more than 175 games are divided into five chapters:

• Break the Ice (Name Dropping, Life Raft)
• Taking It Easy (Speed Rabbit, Electricity)
• Getting Them Moving (Soh Koh No, Kitty Wants a Corner)
• Running Them Ragged (Pairs Tag, Fox in the Henhouse)
• Wet and Wild (Battleship, Sharks and Mermaids).

Though written with camp leaders in mind, this book will appeal to youth activity directors, counselors, counselors-in-training, coaches, scout leaders, parents, teachers and any other adult looking for creative group activities for youth that include all participants and require little or no special equipment.

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175 Best Camp Games
Looked like new when I received the book.I am always surprised how quickly I receive my items!!!Thank you for being honest, true and fair!!!

175 best camp games
I am a Brownie Leader who saw this book being used at meetings.The girls really enjoyed the games.I bought a copy for myself and found the descriptions of the games easy to read and clear enough that I could picture how the game would actually work..The quick notes and hints are really valuable as sometimes a game will fall flat and the hints will bring it back.

Excellent resource!
All those games and songs you learned as a child, but can only half-way remember?They're in this book! It's worth it's weight in gold! A must have if you are a Girl Scout leader, camp counselor or plan activities for a large daycare. ... Read more