January’s BlogHer Book Club selection is The Underside of Joy. It’s a beautiful book, really: it’s complex, lushly layered, and elegantly written. Here’s a blurb from the author’s website: To Ella Beene, happiness means living in the Northern California river town of Elbow with her husband, Joe, and his two young children. For three years, more »
Read more →*sidenote – I actually did contract a novella last week. It’ll be released under my pen name late this spring. If you happen upon it and think the writing seems like mine and ask me if it’s my work, I may confirm it. Why a pen name? Because it’s a romance–the Snarky Momma is supposed more »
Read more →This post brought to you by Walgreens. All opinions are 100% mine. When I was a kid we had out of network insurance. My mom had my sister and I covered as beneficiaries under her PBA insurance, but since we were in North Carolina and she was in New York City it was just like more »
Read more →I’m not very stuff-conscious. I don’t have the energy to be coveting things all the time (except for these boots that I finally got after four months of convincing myself that I deserved them: ) That being said, I’ve learned something really important about myself in the past six or seven weeks: my sanity starts more »
Read more →Those of you with excellent long-term memory may remember that Rosco failed his stereopsis test a couple of months ago. Well, I wanted to have that checked out before registering him for kindergarten (WHICH I NEED TO DO BY TUESDAY!!!!!!!!) so I took him to the optometrist today. The good news is that he had more »
Read more →I’ve got good news and bad news. First the good news. We found someplace to live! Yayyyyyyyy! It’s a cute, cute, cute little mixed-use neighborhood in Longmont. Well, maybe “cute” isn’t the right word since it’s all modern architecture, but it has a quaint feel about it. The house is right across the street from more »
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