Book Reviews
For the Love of Trefoils
For years, my daughter sold Girl Scout cookies. That wasn’t the only reason she was a Girl Scout, but it may have been the only reason I encouraged her to…
Book Review — Carrie’s Quest
“Carrie’s Quest,” by Pam Sievers is a romance novel, sure, but not your typical impossibly-beautiful-twenty-something-woman meets impossibly-handsome-twenty-something-man with both of them making bad decisions based on misunderstandings along the way…
The Quilt of Kindness
Colleen and Violet were my Angels. Not the scary fire-and-brimstone kind, but the guardian kind who bring goodness and light and help and possibly a nice snack. My mother was…
Book Review — The Meat and Potatoes of Life
“The Meat and Potatoes of Life: My True Lit Com” is the story of Lisa Smith Molinari. Molinari could have had a career as a successful litigator in a big…
Bast-Et Is All of Us
My friend sent me, via text message, this picture of her mother’s cat: Something about this cat picture, sent to me two weeks into house arrest via coronapocalypse, spoke to…
Book Review — Good Grammar is the Life of the Party
“Good Grammar is the Life of the Party: Tips for a Wildly Successful Life” by Curtis Honeycutt is an irreverent, fun collection of essays written by a self-described Word Nerd. …
My Marriage Can Drink
My husband and I recently celebrated our 21st wedding anniversary. This means our marriage is now old enough to drink. That’s good. It needs a drink. On the one hand,…
Book Review — What I Like About You
I don’t know about you, but I’m getting tired of all the nasty in this world. Everyone seems so focused on what they don’t like and what is wrong with…
And so on and so on
Back in the 1970s there was a commercial for Faberge Organic Shampoo[1] that had some All-American looking blonde girl telling two friends about how awesome her shampoo was, and they…
Reptiles
The only explanation that makes sense is that somewhere around the age of 70 we go from being mammals to being reptiles and that is why my parents keep their…
