The Book of Awesome: Snow Days, Bakery Air, Finding Money in Your Pocket, and Other Simple, Brilliant Things is great. It’s one of those books that would make a great hostess gift, a book to keep in your guest room, a teacher’s gift, graduation gift, or just a fun treat for yourself. Usually this kind…
Category Archives: Humor
The Tighty Whitey Spider
“Can we read another poem?” How can a mom say no to that? My (almost) six-year-old son and I have really been enjoying The Tighty Whitey Spider: And More Wacky Animal Poems I Totally Made Up by Kenn Nesbitt. I like it because we can read a few poems at bedtime or breakfast or anytime…
The Best Ever Knock-Knock Jokes for Kids
Several years ago, one of my friends gave my son a joke book. For the next few weeks, my son followed me around with non-stop jokes. I vowed I would one day have my revenge! The Best Ever Knock-Knock Jokes for Kids is a wonderful joke book for children. It is filled with good, clean…
Moms Go Where Angels Fear to Tread
I read Moms Go Where Angels Fear to Tread during a week of potty training. If you’ve potty trained, you know my state of mind exactly. I needed to hear that someone else found mothering to be just as much of an adventure as I myself was finding it to be. Author Joan Wester Anderson…
Cake Wrecks
Maybe I’m a really sick person but I get a lot of kicks and jollies out of looking at other people’s cake decorating disasters. I know that this isn’t kind of me, but it’s very true. You see, I submitted myself to a Wilton Cake Decorating Class once and used my (valid) excuse of a…
The Motion of the Ocean
The Motion of the Ocean by Janna Cawrse Esarey is a delightful book that not many people could write. Anyone else taken a honeymoon voyage around the world in a small sailboat? That’s what I thought. This book should appeal to those who enjoy memoir (especially humorous ones), reflections on marriage, or armchair travelers. The…
What the Duck
I can’t quit snickering. Let me first say that it has been a long, long, LONG time since I’ve read comics of any sort. I haven’t seen a newspaper in years and I don’t bother to look them up online. I had my favorite strips when I was a teen but they just haven’t stuck…
Mother Daze
Attention moms: You know how good you can feel after having a spontaneous conversation with another mom while you watch your children play around at the park? I’m talking about the type of conversation in which you drop all the pretenses and speak candidly about the whirlwind that life is when you’re a mom. Well,…
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress
They say that you can’t go home again. Rhoda Janzen’s memoir Mennonite in a Little Black Dress is subtitled “A Memoir of Going Home.” You can indeed go home, but what Rhoda finds, and what we have all found, is that the home you return to is not the home that you leave, since we…
I Shudder
There’s really no other way to start this review than to say that if you are already a fan of humorous memoirs, a la David Sedaris, then you will want to get your hands on a copy of Paul Rudnick’s new book, I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey. The pages…
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