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VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR: The Shattered Crown

The Shattered Crown (The Legends of Ansu Book 2) The Shattered Crown by AJ Webb is the second in the Legends of Ansu series, but you really don’t have to have…

Packing Healthy Lunches the Lazy Mom’s Way

In 8th grade, my son was assigned to a class called “Family and Consumer Science.”  This class is, basically, Home Ec, and it irritates me that it is called “Family…

Battle Scars

What are your battle scars? Not too long ago, I was hauling some accumulated crapola from one location to another, for reasons that are not relevant here.  I hired a…

High School Dance

I’m pretty sure that I only went to one high school dance the entire time I was in high school, and that was the senior prom.  Which wasn’t really called…

BOOK REVIEW: Until He Comes

Until He Comes: A Good Girl’s Quest to Get Some Heaven on Earth I had the massive good fortune of being randomly paired with K. Dawn Goodwin in the Emory…

Chicken Soup

Well, the heat finally broke here in Georgia, meaning it isn’t 80 degrees out before sunrise, and that means that I get my annual season-changing illness.  I get sick every…

What’s the Matter with White Pants?

   I miss my White Pants…. I am writing this on September 22, 2016 which is, so the calendar says, the first day of fall.  It is approximately ninety-jillion degrees…

Ode to the Public Library

Every two weeks-ish I go to the public library to renew what I haven’t finished, return stuff, and pick out more stuff.  It’s a place I pretty much take for…

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…