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2016 — 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…

Top Ten Books to Read in 2017

I read a lot – I average a book a week, sometimes more. I read a lot of good books in 2016, and when I do I try to share.…

BOOK REVIEW: Midlife Happy Hour

  Midlife Happy Hour: Our Reward for Surviving Careers, Kids, and Chaos (Midlife Cabernet Book 2) Midlife Cabernet, by Elaine Ambrose, raises a glass to the advantages of late middle…

Middle School Bathroom Ballet

Sometime in late October, I fell out of my car.  I have a thousand excuses, none of them particularly good, including “there was stuff in my hands so I couldn’t…

BOOK REVIEW: The Gentleman

  The Gentleman: A Novel The Gentleman, by Forrest Leo, is a fun novel, creative and entertaining. In it, Lionel Strange, a fair-to-middling poet brimming with unearned self-confidence finds himself…

Way Back in the Way Back.

Back before the laws of physics were passed and no one wore seat belts because we all believed it would be safer to be ‘flung free,’ my parents owned a…

BOOK REVIEW: The Power of Habit

  The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business Every once in a while I read a book that completely reorders the way I…

Chapped Lips and the Evolution of Smooth

Back in the day when I was serious about being a flute player, I was mildly obsessed with chapped lips.  Especially so in the dry winter.  Chapped lips could make…

BOOK REVIEW: The Little Red Christmas Ball

The Little Red Christmas Ball: a story for kids and anyone whoever was…and would be again The Little Red Christmas Ball, by Brian Moloney, is a sweet little chapter book.…

Grits & Vegemite

I have a friend named Alex, who is the mistress of www.alexchristopherwrites.com and the creator of “Visibility Coaching.”  Alex lives in Australia, which is about as far from my house in…

BOOK REVIEW: Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

  Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick Leonard Peacock has a plan to kill himself after he kills his former best friend Asher Beal. He will do it with…

The 9 PTO Moms (and 1 Dad) You’ll See at Every Event

If you’ve volunteered at any school or PTO event, you know these parents.  They’re the same in every school across the world.  Do you recognize them? Marge N. Charge Marge…