A Ferry Tale #Scotland #travel
How to Lunch. (A Ferry Tale for Island Lovers.) Once upon island-time, four women wanted to go out to lunch. …
Author Archives: barbtaub
It is a truth universally acknowledged… Plus #BookReview of Intrigue & Infamy by @CarolJHedges #VictorianDetective #RBRT #TuesdayBookBlog
It is a little unfair, I think, to criticize a person for not sharing the enlightenment of a later epoch, …
Day Eight #storytime
Originally posted on TanGental:
Day Eight Terry Godd sat slumped and looked mournfully at the cheery man opposite. ‘And?’ Dr…
Et tu Chicken? #humor #parenting #pets
OF course the 8-year-old loved rodents. In her entire life, I doubted she’d seen more than three movies that didn’t include animated rodents. And she loved every one of them, from Anatole, the bravest mouse in France, to Mickey, the richest mouse in pants.
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 …
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 …
