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Monthly Archives: January 2017

Get a Job, Kid January 29, 2017

“Get a Job, Kid!” I can’t count the number of times I’ve said this in response to a sentence that starts “Mooooomm!  I waaaaant.” Well, my boy finally took my advice. My boy, who is now so old that if he goes a few days without shaving you can see the stubble on his jawline…

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Book Review — The Rook January 26, 2017

  The Rook “The Rook” by Daniel O’Malley is a wonderfully inventive, witty, thoughtful book that can be, at times, dead serious and laugh out loud hilarious. It is part spy novel, part whodunit, part fantasy, and all entertaining. Myfanwy (rhymes with “Tiffany”) Thomas awakens beaten and bloody in a London park surrounded by dead…

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Eyeball Surgery Redux January 15, 2017

If you’ve read my books (and I’ll pause here while you go order them off of Amazon or the online retailer of your choice if you haven’t) you’ll know that I have a pretty lengthy history with eyeball surgery.  As a person too blind for lasik, I got implanted contact lenses which involved slicing open…

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Hello, Alexa January 8, 2017

Why did I buy Alexa?  Well, holiday gift giving in my house is always tough.  There are the teenagers, who are guaranteed not to like whatever ‘thing’ I buy them: simply because I chose it, it has to be uncool.  Gift cards are workable, but not much fun to open.  As for my darling husband,…

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2016 — A Year in Review January 1, 2017

  2016.  A Year in Review 2016.  What a year, huh?  Judging from a random sampling of my Facebook friends, most folks seem to think that it is in the record book as one of the more seriously horrible years that have ever occurred.  The red carpet has been laid out in front of the…

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