2020

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…

An Open Letter to Everyone Who Has Ever Crossed My Path

An Open Letter to Everyone Who Has Ever Crossed My Path: Dear Friends, Business Associates, Colleagues, Random Stranger I Struck Up A Conversation With On Line At Wendy’s, People I…

BOOK REVIEW: Gods Behaving Badly

Gods Behaving Badly: A Novel Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips gets points mainly for creativity. I’m always happy when I find a book that isn’t like all the others;…

A Mother’s Lament

A MOTHER’S LAMENT Twinkle twinkle little star Get this trash out of my car The Taco Bell The Coffee Cup: Balloons that you were blowing up   Up above the…

Yesoholics Anonymous

Hello.  My name is Lori, and I’m a Yesoholic. I have a more or less clinical resistance to saying no to whatever people ask of me.  In fact, even when…