2020
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.…
BOOK REVIEW: Midlife Happy Hour
Midlife Happy Hour: Our Reward for Surviving Careers, Kids, and Chaos (Midlife Cabernet Book 2) Midlife Cabernet, by Elaine Ambrose, raises a glass to the advantages of late middle…
Middle School Bathroom Ballet
Sometime in late October, I fell out of my car. I have a thousand excuses, none of them particularly good, including “there was stuff in my hands so I couldn’t…
BOOK REVIEW: The Gentleman
The Gentleman: A Novel The Gentleman, by Forrest Leo, is a fun novel, creative and entertaining. In it, Lionel Strange, a fair-to-middling poet brimming with unearned self-confidence finds himself…
Way Back in the Way Back.
Back before the laws of physics were passed and no one wore seat belts because we all believed it would be safer to be ‘flung free,’ my parents owned a…
