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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…

Book Review: Flood Girls

[sg_popup id=”1″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] The Flood Girls “The Flood Girls” by Richard Fifield is a quirky, different kind of book, populated with unusual, flawed, and likeable characters. Rachel Flood is returning…

Miss Trunchbull

About ten years ago, I had eyeball surgery which implanted contact lenses right in front of my retinas.  This allowed me to go glasses free for a long time.  Recently,…

Book Review — A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea

[sg_popup id=”1″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea: A Novel “A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea” by Dina Nayeri is a moving, haunting novel about a girl growing up…

A Night at the Opera

I get it.  You have some preconceived notion of the Opera being stuffy and boring and something that only rich people do after a diet of caviar and foie gras…