Description: Everyone gets to be young,
but not everyone gets to grow old.People often say, "Life goes by so fast," and the truth is, it does. Yet we often forget how to make the most of it. How do we create a grateful life and leave a meaningful legacy with those we love? The Last Best Year is an inspirational walk through the heart of the author as she shares her thoughts on gratitude and the life most would say they desire to live.
Having endured countless tragic losses throughout her life, the author has learned to embrace the unexpected, cherish gratitude, and search for the blessing in every circumstance.
Bless the ones you love.Give what you can.Embrace a new hobby.Forget competition.Drink the milkshake first.Brief description: Donna Wyland is an award-winning author, editor, and ICF-certified coach. Two of her picture books, Psalms in Rhyme for Little Hearts and 'Twas the Night Before Jesus were Readers' Choice Award Finalists. In addition, 'Twas the Night Before Jesus won the 2025 Illumination Award Silver Medal, and Psalms in Rhyme for Little Hearts won the 2024 Christian Indie Award.She was recognized by Writer's Digest for her poetry, and she won Writer of the Year at the Flor-ida Christian Writer's Conference in 2018 where she was awarded top honors for her devotionals, humor, poetry, and flash fiction. She has writ-ten for Clubhouse, Jr., Focus on the Family, and Story Friends magazines, and she has contrib-uted personal essays and poems to numerous publications.Donna's books have been gifted to thousands of children around the world through Military Ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ, All God's Children International, The Library of Hope, Manners of the Heart Community Fund, and many other individuals and organizations. Her picture books were also featured at a book sign-ing at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.Donna has traveled extensively to interna-tional destinations and loves meeting people from all cultures. She is a former lay counselor and worship singer, and she has shared her testi-mony with women's groups in various churches across the United States.She writes in her home office in South-west Florida and dreams of learning Italian and French to prepare her for more trips to faraway places around the world.