Is your family crazier than mine?

January 17, 2020
crazy-family
Every time I think my family has the corner on dysfunction I learn that other families I know have it even worse. From publicly throwing each other under the bus to...
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How a calf, 4H and a ranch made her a writer

August 6, 2017
fiction-writer
She was raised on a ranch in Alberta and I would have never encountered her in my day to day life. But social media connect us with a broad range of people and...
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Beach reading to transport you

July 13, 2017
beach-reading
If you're around my age you remember those "Calgon, take me away!" TV ads.  Yes, that is a live link. But how often have I wished something could transport me away from...
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Compassionate, practical caregiving advice

October 21, 2016
caregiving-advice
Are you concerned about what will happen when your elderly parents can no longer care for themselves? No one gives us caregiving advice when we're younger. As we get...
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Wives of Los Alamos

May 27, 2016
book-recommendation
The Wives of Los Alamos by TaraShea Nesbit is beautifully written, lyrical, unique and could be the best fiction I've read in a very long time. I downloaded this audio...
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Who me? Feisty?

March 5, 2016
Feisty-after-45
I'm an author! Well, not really. I didn't write this book. But I am one of 45 feisty bloggers who contributed to this funny, inspirational and helpful anthology on...
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Best summer beach reads

June 12, 2015
Airplane reading and beach reading have one thing in common: they've got to be distracting and that means fairly light. But not completely mindless. The kind of book...
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A guy talks about being dumped

March 13, 2015
Guys-dumping-guys
Of course it was inevitable that my smart and funny husband would want to see my essay in the anthology, Dumped, Women Unfriending Women. What I didn't expect was that...
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Not wild about Wild

February 8, 2015
Every morning I climb on the gym's treadmill, insert my bright pink ear buds and hit play on my audio version of Cheryl Strayed's book, Wild: From Lost to Found on the...
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Love me, love my book

January 23, 2015
bad-book-review
Writing a book is...difficult. Authors pour every ounce of their being into a tome--no small amount of blood, sweat and tears are shed--and then it's out, for the world...
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