Rick Springfield

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…

VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR: A Solitary Romance

A Solitary Romance: Book 1 in the Only Love Series Disclaimer: The good folks at Books and the Bear gave me a copy of A Solitary Romance in exchange for…

Mascara

If I were a little kid, and I presented you with this picture I had drawn with crayons:you would have no real way of knowing if it was supposed to…

BOOK REVIEW: Every Day by David Levithan

Every Day Every Day by David Levithan is further proof of my theory that if you want to read a really good, beautifully written, engaging, creative, through provoking book that…

Crushing Mind Candy

Comes the end of the day (defined on some bad days as 3:00 p.m.) and I am completely brain dead.  There has been enough input and the overworked filing clerks…

Dress Code Blues

Does this dress pass the dress code? Once upon a time, I gave birth two and a half weeks early to a little six and a half pound peanut whose…

The Ice Cream Man

At first I didn’t notice it.  There are so many background bells and whistles these days, that it kind of blended in.  But it was persistent.  I thought it might…

Book Review — Stay Where You Are And Then Leave

Stay Where You Are And Then Leave “Stay Where You Are And Then Leave” by John Boyne is such a simple, lovely heartbreaking book.  Written by the author of “The…

Pokemon Go Home

Because I am nothing if not a follower of the latest trends, I downloaded Pokemon Go to my phone. For both of you out there who are even more behind…

Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Drag Queens

When I get home from work I am tired.  Between the drama that is work, and the drama that is headline news, and the drama that is mothering two young…

BOOK REVIEW: Someone Could Get Hurt

Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood “Someone Could Get Hurt” by Drew Magary is a hilarious parenting memoir that is relatable and heartbreaking at the same time.…

Christmas in July

I’m a Jew, and this is July, so you’d be correct in thinking it odd that I’m all hopped up and excited about a Christmas sweater.  Yup, it’s the Jewish…