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Life can be hard, but it's a lot easier when you are a good person, trying to do the right thing surrounded by people who love you! Goodness has a way of being contagious. Lucky boy. Lucky MAMA.
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Once upon a time, a girl married a boy. This boy said he was “an artist.” “What did that mean?” she wondered. Well, as it turns out, for her—it meant that he was unemployed for a long time. But the girl kept telling herself that she married an artist and this is what happens when you marry an artist. They are so smart and so ethereal and mercurial and brilliant—I mean all she had to do was ask him and he would tell her he was a genius—such a genius in fact, that he constantly felt surrounded by people that didn’t understand him--especially in work environments.
Coincidentally, or maybe not so coincidentally, that girl had a friend. That friend had A LOT of boyfriends, before she got married, who were also self-proclaimed artists—writers, musicians, actors, poets—all tortured, all unemployed—some convicted felons. Luckily,...
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I feel like I’m always trying to get my kids to calm down. I speed past my desired freeway exits because they are thumb wrestling—which means screaming-- in the back seat. We rarely get through a meal without milk or juice spillage because of some flailing arm accompanying a too loud story. Just this morning, after insisting that they could apply the cinnamon/sugar to the toast themselves, we literally had a snowstorm of sugar all over the counter and floor. It looked like Studio 54 in the 70’s. They thought it was hilarious, especially when I had to strong arm the dog from licking it all up.
And lately, and I don’t know why this is --but bath time is totally out of control. What is it about being naked together that makes kids go totally outer limits? They make up these wacky songs that are sorta PG-13 and just crack each...
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Mary: Mrs. A. Lincoln by Janis Cooke Newman
This is a novel written in the form of a first person biography by Mary Todd Lincoln—comprised of notes composed by Mrs. Lincoln herself when she was in a lunatic asylum. This is an unbelievably sad book written by a complicated but altogether sane woman who was most likely institutionalized against her will later in life by her own son. Now, if she was, in fact, insane, one could certainly sympathize. The woman buried three sons and was holding her husband’s hand when he was assassinated. She was madly in love with him too.
Secrets of Eden by Chris Bohjalian:
This is the same author mentioned in the shorts last month—his latest novel is as controversial and thought provoking as the others. This one delves into the world of spousal abuse and an eventual homicide. Who is...
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