Parenting
Book Review — Chasing the Moon
[sg_popup id=”1″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] Chasing the Moon “Chasing the Moon” by A. Lee Martinez is a strange little book, highly entertaining, and laugh out loud funny. Don’t let its silliness fool…
Home Sweet Hotel Room
[sg_popup id=”1″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] As I sit here typing, I am in a hotel room. I’m someone who doesn’t generally travel much, but I have been living out of a lot…
Book Review — Drop Dead Healthy
[sg_popup id=”1″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] Drop Dead Healthy: One Man’s Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man’s Humble Quest for Bodly Perfection” by A.J. Jacobs chronicles the authors attempts…
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…
Book 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…
The 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…
Eyeball 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…
Hello, 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:…
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.…
