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An age difference of two years doesn’t seem like much, but as childhood memories go, it’s an eternity . Anthony has 22 months on me and those few months have often left me struggling to remember musical groups or television shows that he vividly recalls. While he was sneaking into the theater to see Porky’s, [...]
I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of this story–including a post I wrote about it on my now-defunct life blog–but I can’t stop sharing my cautionary tale with friends and strangers. Forgive me if you’ve heard or seen this one before. In December 2000, my husband and I were new homeowners, purchasing our center [...]
Last week I was talking up home cooking and meal plans as time and money savers. I borrowed cookbooks from the library and found two new recipes to add to my limited culinary oeuvre. On Sunday morning, I stumbled into my kitchen at the virtually pre-dawn hour of 7am to commence my day of meal [...]
About six weeks ago, I found myself wishing that a designer would mate a cute handbag with a functional camera bag, relieving me of sherpa duty. If a horse and donkey can get together and make a mule, surely someone out there could make a camera bag/purse hybrid. I scoured the internet for this dream [...]
Could someone please tell me when my favorite holiday–Halloween–morphed into a vanilla-porn industry that targets 8-to-12-year-olds? Hello? Where have I been living? (A long, winding, and not-remotely-about-books post is ahead: You have been warned.) In days of yore–yes, I’m pulling out the “When I was your age” card–I wore sensible costumes that were age appropriate and weather conscious for [...]
Welcome aboard, I'm Natalie! I'm 37, married to a dream boat, and live in New Jersey. It's all about books here! I read, recommend, review, and revel in them. Have a book you'd like me to review? Visit my Review Policy for details. Want to drop me a line? February 9, 2012
The Girl with the Crooked Nose
by Ted Botha
courtesy of Penguin Publishers
February 25, 2012
The Book Club Cookbook
by Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp
courtesy of Tarcher Publishers (Penguin USA)
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