Thursday Things
* The “Invisible Woman* essay was, indeed, written by Nicole Johnson, is fully subject to copyright, and her publicist tells me they were “deeply sad” when it “went global” without Nicole’s name on it....
View ArticleNot Quite What I Was Planning: The Book (and TAG!)
I’ve been tagged by Career Encourager. Assignment: write a six word memoir. Other rules: post your own memoir. Tag at least five more blogs. Link to them and leave comments. Acknowledge the blog that...
View ArticleWhat I’m reading
I’ve been tagged by Ann of Compensation Force with a new blogging meme. Les Rules: Provide a list of the books you’re currently reading. Pick up the nearest book, and open it to page 123. Find the...
View ArticleMother-Daughter Book Club List (part 1)
Smart, strong women read books. This is the lesson I hope the daughters in our mother-daughter book club are learning. We’ve just finished our 4th year together, and even though our daughters are...
View ArticleMother-Daughter Book Club List (part 2)
I posted yesterday about the Mother-Daughter Book Club my daughter and I have been part of for the past four years. Here are the books we read during the last two of them: 5th Grade Ruby Holler by...
View ArticleGuest Blog by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Almostgotits are still communing with Nature, so we thought we’d invite a much more articulate person to guest blog today. Allow me to introduce you to Isaac Bashevis Singer, a very dear man and...
View ArticleLadies’ Bridge Lunch
Whist led to bridge-whist, which led to auction bridge, which led to contract bridge, which led, according to bridge historian Jack Olsen, to murder, divorce, suicide, mayhem, and other social evils....
View ArticleThe Amazing Adventures of Working Girl
Congratulations to my bloggy pal Karen Burns over at Working Girl! Her book, The Amazing Adventures of Working Girl: Real life career advice you can actually use is due out in March 2009 but is...
View ArticleWired to Care: companies that prosper
Wouldn’t you know. No sooner had I decided to post about Karen Burns’ new book (I’m so proud!!) than I heard about another new book, also about the world of work, and also available by pre-order...
View ArticleThe Easy-Bake Oven: magic, not gourmet
It honestly didn’t occur to me until yesterday afternoon that there might be some connection between my love for Aga stoves and my earlier obsession with Easy-Bake Ovens. Wow, and I call myself a...
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