Karen Jasper is the author of 3 books, including a coming of age family saga, An Imperfect Life: a GLBTQ love story, The Light Stays On; and a collection of poetry, Love & Other Annoyances: All Purpose Poems for Hard Headed & Soft Hearted Romantics.
With an extensive background in counseling, psychotherapy, and training, Karen has a keen understanding of individual and family challenges and relationships. Her writing style is simple and direct, and she often infuses humor into even difficult circumstances.
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Karen Jasper is the author of 3 books, including a coming of age family saga, An Imperfect Life: a GLBTQ love story, The Light Stays On; and a collection of poetry, Love & Other Annoyances: All Purpose Poems for Hard Headed & Soft Hearted Romantics.
With an extensive background in counseling, psychotherapy, and training, Karen has a keen understanding of individual and family challenges and relationships. Her writing style is simple...
An Imperfect Life is a tender, honest, insightful, and sometimes laugh-out-loud exploration of how a flawed family can still be a gem.
The child of alcoholic parents, Christine Macabee should have known better than to marry a man who drank too much. It’s a good thing she has her irrepressible older sister Louise to lean on.
Is it morally defensible for a wife and mother to leave her family because she’s fallen in love with someone else? What if that wife and mother is terminally ill? And what if that someone else is another woman? For Alex Fournier, it is the pull of obligation and duty to her husband and children. For Lily Peterson, it is the challenge of loving a...
In this collection of thirty-five poems, Love and Other Annoyances celebrates all the nuances and of love and life, offering practical and whimsical observations and advice for the many threads that comfort, confuse, make us laugh, and sometimes even break our heart. The poems are about the silly and serious sides of Love. Guilt. Friendship....
