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"You forget / how remarkable your family is / how remarkable your kids are / how remarkable you are / and / this is how / you remember," writes Rachel Toalson in this captivating, honest, and achingly beautiful volume of poetry that illuminates love, parenting, and self-acceptance in the time of COVID-19. Probing the realities of working from home, living in quarantine with seven other people, the desperate search for solitude, and balancing depression, disordered eating, and the mental health of family members, this is how you fly is an examination and celebration of life upended by unforeseen challenges. Written during and after the pandemic, this is how you fly is a candid documentation of the realities of life, illness, and, ultimately, survival. Toalson celebrates the day-to-day moments in lockdown, highlights the annoyance and the pleasure of living with so many people with nowhere to go, and time both flying and dragging. Her words rise above the anxiety of the unknown and offer an inspiring portrait of triumph, showing her readers: This is how you fly-you make the most of your situation.Perfect for fans of Mary Oliver, Sharon Olds, Billy Collins, and Maggie Smith, this is how you fly is Toalson's ninth book of poetry.

In this introspective collection of personal essays, award-winning poet and essayist Rachel Toalson provides an intimate and essential portrait of what it means to be human. With essays like "On Family Trees that Look More Like Stumps," "On Childhood Depression," "On Loss and God" and "On Wishing for a Different Life," Rachel uncovers her heart, her soul, and her honest feelings and philosophies.We Count it All Joy is a singular collection of essays that takes one woman's personal experience and wraps it inside a collective experience so that readers connect, marvel, and feel the thread of humanity that joins us all. Exploring topics like anxiety and depression, marriage, loss, and modern femininity, Rachel guides her readers to the end of the world, so that they, too, have a chance to say, we count it all joy.

Idiodare: 1. (Verb) To defy or challenge someone to do something idiotic. 2. (Noun) An idiotic challenge. 3. (Fact) Something with which you'll become intimately familiar in a house full of boys.There's nothing like a crew of boys to show you how funny bodily functions are, how loud a house can get, and how little one should care about clothes, nice shoes, style, and personal care. Boys see the world as a gigantic playground. They see home as a safe place to be their truest, messiest selves. They see moms as a source of unconditional, never-ending love and dads as an eternal jungle gym.There's just nothing like them.From the voice behind the popular Crash Test Parents blog comes Book 3 of the Crash Test Parents series. With wit and eloquence, Rachel shines a light on what it's like to live with males who unintentionally destroy everything, unwittingly walk around in a dirt cloud, and wholeheartedly enjoy making everything a competition--especially if it involves eating.This Life With Boys includes hilarious and entertaining essays like: What Sons Do to a Perfectly Good House Food is the Way to a Boy's Heart What it Means to Be a Boy: Compete in Everything Welcome to My Smelly Pit How Boys Fight: Incessantly I See London, I See France, Go Put on Some Underpants How to Dress Like a Boy Things You'll Hear in a Household of Boys How to Turn Family Dinners into Family Gag Fests 11 Mom Looks that are Familiar to Boys 8 Ridiculous Things I No Longer Care About As a Momand many more.Hailed as "the Erma Bombeck of a new generation of parents," Rachel's third full-length book of humor essays in the Crash Test Parents series will make you laugh until you cry and cry until you laugh--but mostly it will remind you that this life with boys? It's pretty grand.Rachel is the mother of six young boys who daily give her inspiration for comical essays. Her work can often be seen on Huff Post Parents, Scary Mommy, Babble and Motherly. She lives with all her males in San Antonio, Texas, where she faithfully writes 5,000 words a day, five days a week.

Would you rather try to keep a tidy house with kids around or clean up after a tornado every day? It's about the same. When you're a parent, you spend a considerable amount of time working as an unpaid maid. You pick up something your kid left on the floor just so he can throw it down again. When you become a parent, your aspirations for a clean and tidy house soar out the window, flying on wings of impossibility. And maybe that's as it should be. From the voice behind the popular Crash Test Parents blog comes Book 2 of the series by the same name. With wit and eloquence, Rachel tells the true story of what it's like to dream of a tidy house and live in the reality of parenthood, where kids thwart your tidying efforts at every turn. The Life-Changing Madness of Tidying Up After Children includes hilarious and entertaining essays like: What Do Scissors Have to Do With an Untidy Home? Pretty Much Everything. Astounding Stockpiles in Which to Lose Yourself On Storage Solutions: Pursue Ultimate Lockdown The Most Common Battlegrounds for Entropy Tidying Language is Lost in Translation The Confidence You Gain in Your Tidying Attempts: You Will Fail at Lesser Things LEGOs: The Safest Explosion You'll Ever Survive (And Also the Most Annoying) The Whole World's a Canvas (Especially When It Has Walls) Where Are All My Household Utensils? and many more. Called "the Erma Bombeck of a new generation of parents," Rachel's second full-length book of essays in the Crash Test Parents series is sure to make you laugh out loud and then promptly hug your children--because they really are messy little treasures. Rachel is the mother of six young boys who daily give her inspiration for comical essays. Her essays can often be seen on Huff Post Parents, Scary Mommy and Babble. She lives with all her males in San Antonio, Texas, where she faithfully writes 5,000 words a day, five days a week.

Science gave her life, Death now rules her.Raised from the dead by science, Yasmin was claimed by the Grim Reaper and sent to the kingdom of Fairendale with a command to usurp the throne. Now a captive queen of sorts, she begins to question whether she was made for more-good or evil, it is anyone's guess, only let her make her own decisions. But who is she without the Grim Reaper? And how can she possibly escape his hold?When Yasmin acquires a magical quill pen and uses it to create a monster army that turns the woods around Fairendale darker-placing everyone in the realm in grave danger-she believes it was her own handiwork, at least until she tries to bring a monster into Fairendale castle and meets an invisible wall. Her anger unfolds, along with her conviction that she is fully capable of ruling a throne without the help of the Grim Reaper or anyone else-and how many casualties will her quest for freedom require?The Woman Who Stole the Throne is the thirteenth book in the Fairendale series, an epic fantasy middle grade series that explores both familiar and unfamiliar fairy tales, legends, myths, and folk tales. The world of Fairendale revolves around villains and heroes-all on a quest for what they believe is right. Throughout the series, the story of King Willis and his determination to keep the throne of Fairendale (at all costs? Perhaps. Or perhaps not.) is woven into the story of his son, Prince Virgil, heir to the throne and friend to the village children, and the story of fairy tale children fleeing for their lives-children who become what we know as fairy tale villains, for one good reason or another. But, remember, one cannot always know, at first glance, who is the villain and who is the hero.

Textbook of an Ordinary Life is a collection of poetry and prose that examines ordinary life with extraordinary curiosity, wisdom, and insight. With grace and eloquence, poet Rachel Toalson examines the pleasures of reading, the meaning of measured silences, weather, the masks we wear, the unexpected delight of running, art criticism, the soul of music, wandering, regret, love, and many other wonders of ordinary life.The poetry in Textbook is divided into subjects like English, History, Science, Math, Social Studies, Art, Music, Geography, and Philosophy. Textbook of an Ordinary Life is Rachel's fourth book of poetry and her most introspective, honest collection yet.

Choose your battles.It's sage advice. But most parents, before becoming parents, don't have a clue just how many battles kids will place in front of them with seemingly endless energy to engage. Choose your battles becomes a life-saving measure when one has kids. Knowing when to stand your ground and when to lie down is imperative in the face of such admirable yet aggravating persistence.From the voice behind the popular Crash Test Parents blog comes a brand new collection of comical essays about the challenges and joys of parenting. With measured wit and eloquence, Rachel exposes the universal challenges of leaving the house with kids, traveling with kids, putting kids to bed, eating with kids, and, largely, daily life lived with kids.Hills I'll Probably Lie Down On includes hilarious and entertaining essays like: 10 Things You'll Give Up When You Become a Parent Surprise! We're Doing the Same Thing We Did Last Night! Why I'm a Parent Who Doesn't Care Hoarders: Kids Edition This is Every Family Dinner You've Ever Had Why Does My Towel Smell Like Butt? How to Parent: In 39 Confusing Steps Dear Concerned Reader: Wouldn't You Like to Knowand many more.Hailed as "The Erma Bombeck of a new generation of parents," Rachel's fourth full-length book of humor essays in the Crash Test Parents series will cure every parent's reluctance to say: These are the hills we won't die on. Rachel is the wife of one man and the mother of six young boys who daily give her inspiration for comical essays. Her work can often be seen on Huff Post Parents, Scary Mommy, Babble, and Motherly. She lives with all her males in San Antonio, Texas.

this is how you live is the long-awaited followup to award-winning poet Rachel Toalson's debut poetry book, this is how you know. Delving into the depths and mystery of mental illness, Rachel examines what it means to wrestle with depression, daily life, and, ultimately, hope.Written over the course of a tumultuous year, this is how you live is an honest documentation of life shaken by major depression that culminates into a celebration of life. Divided into three sections-sink, sleep, rise-Rachel's words lift above the despair to produce a work of phenomenal beauty, vulnerability, and triumph, showing readers: this is how you live.Masterful, vibrant, and emotional, this is how you live is Rachel's fifth book of poetry.

Of all the transformation possibilities, he had to become a monstrous spider.Frederick, one of the lost children of Fairendale, is folded up inside a sack of sorts, thanks to a Vanishing spell that transported him to an underground cave near Lincastle. Upon hatching, he learns that he is a massive, monstrous spider in a whole colony of them. The spiders have rules and rituals, and Frederick wants nothing to do with them. He stands out lamentably; he is, after all, human under his spider skin.A friend within the colony (if a giant spider can be called a friend, that is) warns Frederick that those spiders who are different, who do not blend in, do not last long in the group. He must conform or die. But when Frederick sneaks away from the sleeping spiders and discovers an evil plot brewing in Lincastle, he must decide: conform and let evil run its course, or rebel and risk his life for a noble rescue attempt?The Boy Who Frightened Miss Muffet is the fifteenth book in the Fairendale series, an epic fantasy middle grade series that explores both familiar and unfamiliar fairy tales, legends, myths, and folk tales. The world of Fairendale revolves around villains and heroes-all on a quest for what they believe is right. Throughout the series, the story of King Willis and his determination to keep the throne of Fairendale (at all costs? Perhaps. Or perhaps not.) is woven into the story of his son, Prince Virgil, heir to the throne and friend to the village children, and the story of fairy tale children fleeing for their lives-children who become what we know as fairy tale villains, for one good reason or another. But, remember, one cannot always know, at first glance, who is the villain and who is the hero.