Shoot the Arrows: Essays from Mom on Taking an Honest Shot at Life

"Perhaps there is no manual for a life well-lived, but Shoot the Arrows certainly makes its mark." - Rachel Guvenc, Managing Editor, Water Stone Review Shoot the Arrows is a collection of essays about wisdom and how it's won. In these love letters to her grown children, Sally Vardaman tackles emotionally complex life struggles such as overcoming neediness, facing addiction, and learning to tell the truth. "These essays strip bare her life and share her revelations about achieving, grieving, regretting, forgiveness, loving, failing, and fresh starts, suggesting that our story - the good, the bad, and the ugly - is a redemptive work of art. And we are the ones who hold the brush. These are the truths children need to hear." - Jonathan Odell, author of The Healing Advocating a growth mindset of personal revision rather than moralism, these essays are about self-reflection, truth and love as the foundations of interpersonal strength. This book is a path to: understand the lies of perfecti