The guys over at How To Be a Dad released a funny new book this spring called The Guide to Baby Sleep Positions. It's an instructional manual, if you will, which is really just a way of pointing and laughing at all parents who say "I WILL NEVER LET MY CHILD SLEEP IN BED WITH ME" … [Read more...]
I Gave Her My Heart and She Gave Me a Pen. Book Review: “Cursive” by Alex Wyndham Baker
To say that Cursive was a delightful surprise would be an understatement. Friends, this is one book I hated to put down, and the joy is greater because I heard nothing about it in advance of reading it, save for the description given by its publicist. I gleaned … [Read more...]
Book Review: Lara Santoro’s “The Boy”
Anna is a divorced mother of an 8-year-old girl who had fled her ex-husband for the desert of New Mexico. She doesn't seem to work, really, although at one time, her narrative hints, she was an international journalist. Something happened between her and the ex that looms … [Read more...]
“Cuss Control” Is Like Spanx For Your Brain
The rule of thumb is to never swear at a person with the ability to break your thumb. It's also unwise to swear at your mother, your employer, the person you sleep with on a regular basis, and anyone who appears to be heavily armed. The past seven years of being a parent have … [Read more...]