Celebrating Writers—and SuperMothers—on Labor Day. #humor #parenting #writing
My Labor Day Tribute to becoming a writer. Or not. If you have any young friends who aspire to …
Monthly Archives: August 2019
Mom’s Keiretsu or How to Fix the World #humor
We were supposed to have it all. When I grew up, they told us it would be easy for a …
Nailed it! #humor #kids #parenting
I was TOTALLY right! As CNN reports here, in a new study by a team of researchers at Germany’s Heidelberg …
Dog Days of Summer #humor #pets
[Another Blast From the Past. Champaign Urbana News Gazette, 1994] My dog Tasha wanted to sue me. She thought since …
Fairy Tales: all the plots. Plus #BookReview~Unhappily Ever After: A Fairy Tale for Grown-ups by @LucindaEClarke. #humor #parody #FairyTale
The girl with all the plots. In the early seventies, writer and journalist Christopher Booker started working on a book. …
Swell Funerals, Family, and Chicago. Plus #BookReview of The Alchemy of Noise by @LorraineDWilke #LiteraryFiction #humor
Chicago and a swell funeral brought us together. I was in college in Chicago when my mother told me one …
Putting the DIE in DIETING. Plus #BookReview of Poisoned by the Pier by @EllenJacobson #CozyMystery #Humor
One dish fits all diets. Recently, we invited a large group for an evening that included dinner. Now, I’ve been …
Bridget Jones meets the MarySue. #RBRT #BookReview of Jennifer Brown Moving On #ChickLit #Romance #Humor
When you’re a grownup. There are things I know I’m supposed to do. (Floss daily. Save for retirement. Go to …
Tastes better with jam… #FlashFiction #horror #humor @Charli_Mills
I don’t write horror or flash fiction. Except, apparently, when I do… Everything Tastes Better With Jam She hesitated, then …
Dog Days… plus #BookReview of #CozyMystery A Star-Spangled Mayfair by @KassandraLamb #humor #summer #camping
My friend Ro lived, as we said in academia, in “the Real World.” In fact, she lived in the realest …
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