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BOOK REVIEW: Confessions of Super Mom

Confessions of Super Mom Confessions of Super Mom by Melanie Lynne Hauser left me asking myself more questions than the author probably expected me to. Birdie Lee is a suburban…

No Fair

“No Fair!!”  ::stamps feet like a toddler:: Anyone who tells you life is fair is trying to sell you something. This is not news to me, or anyone else who…

Is Hiring a Ghost Writer the Same as Cheating?

Is Hiring a Ghost Writer the Same as Cheating? Most of us, while in school, would never have considered paying someone to write our history paper for us.  Instinctively, that…

BOOK REVIEW: The Good Luck of Right Now

  The Good Luck of Right Now: A Novel The Good Luck of Right Now by Matthew Quick is a strange little book, with a narrator reminiscent of “The Curious…

An Open Letter to Everyone Who Has Ever Crossed My Path

An Open Letter to Everyone Who Has Ever Crossed My Path: Dear Friends, Business Associates, Colleagues, Random Stranger I Struck Up A Conversation With On Line At Wendy’s, People I…

BOOK REVIEW: Gods Behaving Badly

Gods Behaving Badly: A Novel Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips gets points mainly for creativity. I’m always happy when I find a book that isn’t like all the others;…

A Mother’s Lament

A MOTHER’S LAMENT Twinkle twinkle little star Get this trash out of my car The Taco Bell The Coffee Cup: Balloons that you were blowing up   Up above the…

Yesoholics Anonymous

Hello.  My name is Lori, and I’m a Yesoholic. I have a more or less clinical resistance to saying no to whatever people ask of me.  In fact, even when…

VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR: A Solitary Romance

A Solitary Romance: Book 1 in the Only Love Series Disclaimer: The good folks at Books and the Bear gave me a copy of A Solitary Romance in exchange for…

Mascara

If I were a little kid, and I presented you with this picture I had drawn with crayons:you would have no real way of knowing if it was supposed to…

BOOK REVIEW: Every Day by David Levithan

Every Day Every Day by David Levithan is further proof of my theory that if you want to read a really good, beautifully written, engaging, creative, through provoking book that…

Crushing Mind Candy

Comes the end of the day (defined on some bad days as 3:00 p.m.) and I am completely brain dead.  There has been enough input and the overworked filing clerks…