Archive for January 2017
Get a Job, Kid
“Get a Job, Kid!” I can’t count the number of times I’ve said this in response to a sentence that starts “Mooooomm! I waaaaant.” Well, my boy finally took my…
Read MoreBook Review — The Rook
[sg_popup id=”1″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] The Rook “The Rook” by Daniel O’Malley is a wonderfully inventive, witty, thoughtful book that can be, at times, dead serious and laugh out loud hilarious. It…
Read MoreThe Bat Mitzvah Girl, the Ogre, and the Onion.
Note: On January 14, 2017, my daughter became a Bat Mitzvah. It is traditional for the mother (me) to give a speech going on and on about how awesome her…
Read MoreEyeball Surgery Redux
If you’ve read my books (and I’ll pause here while you go order them off of Amazon or the online retailer of your choice if you haven’t) you’ll know that…
Read MoreHello, Alexa
Why did I buy Alexa? Well, holiday gift giving in my house is always tough. There are the teenagers, who are guaranteed not to like whatever ‘thing’ I buy them:…
Read More2016 — A Year in Review
2016. A Year in Review 2016. What a year, huh? Judging from a random sampling of my Facebook friends, most folks seem to think that it is in the…
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