Book Review: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

This is the second Sedaris book I picked up and I must say: I’m not disappointed. This is an older book than the first one I read. It’s not as catchy as When You Are Engulfed in Flames but it’s still just as good.
If this were the first of Sedaris’s books I tackled I don’t [...]

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Business Review: Saco/Old Orchard Beach KOA Campground

Every year, we visit Colebrook, New Hampshire. My husband’s uncle has a house up on a mountain overlooking a valley and mountains across the way. The sight is breathtaking. It’s always a shock to me, the next morning, because we get in so late the night before and we can’t see what the darkness has [...]

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Book Review: Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me Chelsea

“I was nine years old and walking myself to school one morning when I heard the unfamiliar sound of a prepubescent boy calling my name. I had heard my nape spoken out loud by males before, but it was most often by one of my brothers, my father, or a teacher, and it was usually [...]

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Book Review: When You Are Engulfed in Flames

I am in love.
This is the first book I’ve read by David Sedaris but I will tell you one thing: I’m hooked. I didn’t even make it through half the book before requesting every book he’s ever written from the library.
This book is a collection of personal essays he’s written over time. It’s hard to [...]

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Business Review: Advanced Precision Hair Removal

Advanced Precision
7 Berkmans Street, Worcester, MA 01602 
(508) 797-3673 
www.jdelectrol.com
For the longest time I have struggled with unwanted hair. This is not a topic women like to discuss. It’s embarrassing. And for me, it makes me feel less like a woman. I mean who really wants to shave, wax, or pluck areas of the body that is [...]

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Book Review: Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time

By Valerie Bertinelli

I’ll be honest. I felt this book was a huge advertisement for Jenny Craig. I know she’s the spokeswoman and all but I found it somewhat repetitive.
It was a slow and I had way too many more interesting reading waiting for me, so I decided to fold. Usually, I like to tough it out [...]

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Book Review: Come Back: A Mother and Daughter’s Journey Through Hell and Back

It is its own religion, this love. Uncontainable, savage, and without end, it is what I feel for my child.
Claire and Mia beautifully wrote this memoir about the challenges they faced – alone and in their relationship. I am completely moved at their ability to reconstruct their relationship. I often think about at what point [...]

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Product Review: alli at First Glance

My frustration with my weight has gone far enough.
I did some research on the diet product, alli, and decided to pick up the starter pack. Since I haven’t officially started the diet yet this is just a brief intro on what I’ve noticed so far. (I will post about my progress with this product as [...]

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Book Review: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“I was born with water on the brain.”
What a great first line. I was immediately drawn into this story about a teenage boy struggling with who he is as an Indian living on a reservation. Ultimately, he decides to attend an all white school a few towns over and it changes his life forever.
Arnold (Junior) [...]

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Book Review: From High Heels to Bunny Slippers

 
I just finished this wonderful book. I was surprised at how much of it pertained to me. Since I have been out of work just over a year in caring for my son I figured the transition from work to home was complete. I took this book out of the library on a whim and [...]

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