Welcome to the Library of Wisdom
A Book for Every Season of Life
Whether you're healing, rebuilding relationships, making important life choices, embracing personal growth, or entering a new season of life, you'll find books written to encourage, strengthen, and inspire your journey. Every season deserves wisdom.
The Wisdom Library
The ideas shared in my books and articles come from years of reflection, conversation, and lived experience. This collection of writings explores relationships, personal growth, life choices, and the lessons many of us learn as we move through different seasons of life. This section should introduce your knowledge topics.
Relationships
Understanding respect, communication, emotional maturity, and the patterns that shape our connections with others.
Dating Wisdom
Thoughtful guidance on dating, recognizing red flags, and building relationships based on respect and emotional awareness.
Life Choices
Reflections on personal decisions, accountability, and how the choices we make influence our future.
Personal Growth
Exploring self-awareness, emotional development, and the ongoing journey of becoming a better version of ourselves.
Boundaries
Learning how to protect your peace, recognize unhealthy dynamics, and build relationships based on mutual respect.
Life After 50
Reflections on reinvention, wisdom gained through experience, and embracing the second season of life.
Seasons of the Soul
Books that reflect emotional seasons in life—holidays, transitions, and meaningful moments throughout the year.
Featured Books
Sitting in My Mess
Sitting in My Mess Laughing at My Past and Loving Where I Am Now is a quiet, honest reflection on life told from the place we all reach but rarely talk about. The pause. This is not a book about fixing your life. It’s about understanding it.
I Waited for My Life Too Long: Finding the Courage to Choose Myself at Last
You did everything right. You showed up. You helped. You waited. And somewhere along the way, your life was put on hold. I Waited for My Life Too Long is a powerful, honest reflection for anyone who has spent years living for others while quietly postponing themselves.
The Measurement of Life: Writing Your Personal Declaration of Purpose
Discovering the Life You Were Meant to Live What if the way you’ve been measuring your life was never meant to tell the whole story? The Measurement of Life is a deeply reflective and personal exploration of how we define success, meaning, and fulfillment.
The Mystery of You: Uncovering the Hidden Story Behind Your Life's Purpose
The Mystery of You is a reflective journey into identity, purpose, and the unseen forces that shape who we become. It is written for those who feel a quiet disconnect between the life they are living and the person they sense themselves to be.
A Statement of Purpose: Rewriting the Script of Your Life's Meaning
What if your life was never meant to follow the script you were handed? A Statement of Purpose is a deeply reflective and empowering book for anyone who has reached a point in life where survival is no longer enough and meaning matters more than expectations.
The Years I Can't Get Back: Healing, Rebuilding, and Finding Peace After Starting Over Later in Life
The Years I Can’t Get Back is a deeply honest and emotionally powerful book for women learning how to rebuild life after leaving later in life.
A Fresh Start: The Life You Still Get to Choose
A Fresh Start: The Life You Still Get to Choose is a thoughtful, uplifting guide for anyone ready to live with greater intention, peace, and purpose. Written in a warm, reflective voice, this book offers reassurance that it is never too late to grow, to heal, or to choose a life aligned with who you are becoming.
Finding Common Ground
Transform Holiday Stress into Seasonal Joy: Your Guide for Blended & Intercultural Families Does the thought of another holiday gathering fill you with anxiety instead of anticipation? You’re not alone.
Lost in the Lights
The credit card bills are mounting. The to-do list is a mile long. You’re exhausted from trying to create a perfect holiday for everyone else, only to end up feeling stressed, empty, and disconnected from the very joy you’re working so hard to create.
What Are Your Regrets for the New Year?
What Are Your Regrets for the New Year? is a warm, honest, and sometimes humorous invitation to look back at the year you actually lived, not the perfect one you imagined.
When Love Holds to Tight: Knowing When and How to Let Go of Your Grown Children
When Love Holds Too Tight is a compassionate, clear-eyed guide for adult children and the parents who love them; who find themselves stuck between loyalty and self-respect.
The Courage to Choose: Stepping Out of Life's Waiting Room
The Courage to Choose: Stepping out of Life’s Waiting Room is your invitation to step out of life’s waiting room. This is not another book about fixing your partner; it’s a heartfelt, empowering guide to reclaiming your own life.
Playing in My Face: When Love, Loyalty, and Silence Cost You Too Much
Playing in My Face is a compassionate, unfiltered exploration of relationships where love was uneven, silence was costly, and loyalty was mistaken for endurance.
Chasing Women, They Can't Have: The High Cost of Empty Dreams
Chasing Women They Can’t Have is a raw, poignant, and unforgettable journey into the hearts of the men who spent their lives chasing the ideal woman; rilliant, successful, luminous, and the devastating price they paid for loving a dream instead of a person.
The Way We Raised Them: What Happened to Respect, Values, and Family?
What happened to the days when children respected their elders, neighbors helped raise each other’s kids, and family values were the foundation of the home?
Ageless Connections: Exploring Modern Love Across Generations
Whether you are in an age-gap relationship, considering one, or simply curious about how love is evolving in today’s world, Ageless Connections offers validation, insight, and reassurance.
Who Will Cry for You? Living with the end in mind
In Who Will Cry for You?, author vgdawson delivers a heart-wrenching, deeply personal exploration of what it means to be forgotten while still alive, and even more tragically, erased in death.
Embracing Ageless Love: A Guide to Older Women Dating Younger Men
Navigate the unique dynamics of age-gap relationships with confidence and grace.
Travel for the Soul
A little inspiration for wherever life — and the world — takes me next.
Free Resources
Complimentary Companion Guides to help you reflect, grow, and return to what matters most.
Featured Articles
Discover thoughtful articles exploring relationships, decision-making, personal growth, and emotional awareness. These articles are designed to encourage reflection and provide practical insight for navigating real-life situations.
About the Author
I write from lived experience, not theory. Every book comes from real conversations—with my children, grandchildren, and the people who trust me with their truth. My goal is simple: to help you make better life choices with clarity, dignity, and wisdom.