In these short and easy-to-read essays the reader sees moms who, in nearly all cases, are the glue that holds the family together by providing encouragement and direction to their children and husbands, along with other women who people seem to depend on for both physical and spiritual support.

Some of the essays have a subtle humor that is very entertaining. In the essay "A Mother Knows," a mother is explaining to her daughter that when she was the girl’s age she could never decide what to wear and the daughter replied, "Yeah, but when you were my age didn’t you wear animal skins and live in caves or something."

Other essays are very serious and inspiring. In "Special Beyond Abilities" the reader gets the story of a mother who defends her son who has Cerebral Palsy and, with bluntness, tries to make people see her son as someone to be admired, not pitied.

The essays run the gamut from moms, daughters, sisters, aunts and mothers-in-law, and each is a quick but delightful read. The book would make a great Mother’s Day gift for any female in the family, while males could gather much useful information from it.