My Garden Wants to Kill Me #humor #gardening
I had a college roommate who talked to her plants. Her side of our dorm room was filled with overachieving …
Category Archives: About Me
Everybody else is running for POTUS… Here are my qualifications. #humor #politics
Now that all four kids are off the family payroll and the house remodel is done—translation: my bathrooms have doors—I …
Don’t judge me. It’s not the ONLY reason I keep him… #humor #spiders #Men&Women
The night I betrayed feminism. I blame it on old age, even older house, and a freakishly warm night in …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Want to Write a Blockbuster Novel? #humor #writing #BookReviews
What works for any other bestseller? All the other bestsellers? In his book, Writing the Blockbuster Novel (Writer’s Digest …
Lucky me! Sunrise to sunset on our small Scottish island #SilentSunday #Travel #Scotland
Barb Taub 