What's your excuse for waiting to get the flu vaccine? Mine was that I couldn't find the time to make an appointment to see my doctor or to wait in line at the pharmacy or Target. (And I also have …
My Beauty “Experiment”: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who Has the Grayest Hair of All?
When I was asked to review The Beauty Experiment: How I Skipped Lipstick, Ditched Fashion, Faced the World without Concealer, and Learned to Love the Real Me by Phoebe Baker Hyde, I read about some of …
An Angry Rant to Winter (and to Dry Skin, Wind Chill, Illness, and Cabin Fever…)
Oh, winter. I've always hated winter. Sure, maybe that first snow around the holidays is nice. Winter rarely shows you its true colors right away. At first, it's seductive. The falling snowflakes …
Challenging the Good Mother Myth With Each Mom’s Story
Long before I was an actual mother, I aspired to become merely a Good Enough Mother -- and avoid the grasp of the Good Mother Myth -- but its grasp was too strong. Just like it has been for the 36 …
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A Lady in France and the Magic of Memoir
I used to think that memoir was a less impressive cousin to fiction. Wasn't it sort of a cop out to write about your own life? Where's the creativity in that? The memoirs that I did read I found often …
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Can We Ever Let Go of Our Childhoods? A Review of “Mother Daughter Me”
There are some books that unexpectedly touch us. We are moved, and then we move on. There are others that knock us over, striking nerves that we didn't even know that we had. For me, Mother …
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