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Book Review — Laugh Out Loud

[sg_popup id=”1″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] Laugh Out Loud: 40 Women Humorists Celebrate Then and Now…Before We Forget Humor is, of course, subjective. What one person thinks is funny, the next person thinks…

Pollen Season and Yellow Snow

In light of record high pollen counts and the glue that has become every bodily fluid I produce, I thought this article from 2016 was worth republishing. [sg_popup id=”1″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup]I…

Book Review — Green and Dying

[sg_popup id=”1″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] Green and Dying: A book of poems April is, as I’m sure you had absolutely no idea, National Poetry Month. In honor of that designation, I am…

Golden Anniversary and Advice

[sg_popup id=”1″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup]On April 6, 2018, just a few days from when I am typing this, my parents will have been married for fifty years. Yup, their golden anniversary has…

Book Review — Rats, Mice, and Other Things You Can’t Take to the Bank

[sg_popup id=”1″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] Rats, Mice, And Other Things You Can’t Take to The Bank: An Inspirational Collection of Essays from Humorous to Simply Human I’m a lucky girl to have…

Essential Tremor

 [sg_popup id=”1″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup]This is what happens when I try to hold my book because of my Essential Tremor. As if I weren’t physically awkward enough, as if my weird,…

Book Review — Mrs. Fletcher

[sg_popup id=”1″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] Mrs. Fletcher: A Novel “Mrs. Fletcher,” by Tom Perrotta, is a novel about finding yourself. Mrs. Fletcher, or Eve, as she prefers to be called, used to…

Sleep Training my Teenager

I’m having to sleep train my teenage daughter.  You remember sleep training, don’t you?  When your sweet precious angel baby was six months old and you thought if you didn’t…

Book Review — A Cup of Love

[sg_popup id=”1″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] A Cup of Love: Stories From the Heart: Valentine’s Day Anthology : 30 Writers on Love & Life “A Cup of Love” is a collection of stories…

The Real Toilet Paper Wars

I am a big fan of indoor plumbing.  I am NOT a fan of indoor plunging.  There is nothing more gag-producing than jamming a wood-and-rubber plunger into a poo filled…

Book Review: Angel Bumps

[sg_popup id=”1″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] Angel Bumps: Hello from Heaven First of all, I want this disclaimer out there: menopause has made me into more of a sap than I used to…

Mrs. Potato Head

I have always looked like I came from Russian peasant stock.  I have a face that looks like it was carved from a potato. My broad shoulders were designed for…