Book Review: Happens Every Day by Isabel Gillies

February 16, 2012 · 0 comments

I finished Happens Every Day by Isabel Gilles last night and I am still reeling and trying to process it.  As a married mother with three children, I found the book absolutely terrifying, and intense, and honest, and heart-breaking.  I read Isabel Gillies’ second memoir on this same topic (and reviewed it!), A Year and [...]

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Book Review: Compendium of Kisses by Lana Citron, Valentines Book Gift

Happy Valentine’s Day.  Please enjoy this repost of a Valentine-flavored book review! I admit it, I’m a fan of kissing.  Who isn’t, right?  Well, according to a new (ish) book, A Compendium of Kisses, by Lana Citron, men are not as fond of kissing as women are.  Who knew? This is the kind of salacious information [...]

Read the full post -> February 14, 2012 Valentine's Day

Book Review and Giveaway: Waking Hours, A Fast-Paced Mystery by Lis Weil

  In Waking Hours by Lis Weil, Dani Harris is a forensic psychiatrist who is about land the job of a lifetime.  Tommy Gunderson is a local, retired professional football hero.  When a teenage girl shows up dead in a horrific, ritualistic-style killing, Dani and Tommy come together to try to solve the murder.  Dani [...]

Read the full post -> February 2, 2012 book giveaway

For New Years, Ben Breedlove Offers Something Life-Changing to Think About Instead of Weight Loss

I am not much for New Year’s Resolutions My theory is that if you don’t make resolutions, then you don’t have to feel bad about not keeping your resolutions, and I HATE to feel bad, especially about myself.  Yuck! One of the inevitable “New Year’s stories” did catch my eye, though. The story of Ben [...]

Read the full post -> January 8, 2012 Mommy Likes

Kid Stress: What If Santa Can’t Afford Christmas?

I am happy to share this clever and contributive post about helping children who may be stressed about Santa being able to afford Christmas this year by Mary Jo Rapini, author of  Start Talking:  Girl’s Guide for You and Your Mom About Health, Sex, or Whatever.  Visit Mary Jo on Facebook and on Twitter! Enjoy [...]

Read the full post -> December 15, 2011 Guest blogging

Book Review: Cavemen in BabyLand by Kindred Howard | Unique Insight of a New Father to Aid Mom, Dad and Baby

All new parents want to be awesome parents, right?  Can we agree on that?  Yes?  Ok. Why is it, then, that what starts as a common goal between a man and a women – that is, fabulous parenting – ends up in misunderstanding, hurt feelings, resentment and in the worst case,  divorce? Kindred Howard, the [...]

Read the full post -> November 16, 2011 book review

Jimmy Kimmel Ask Parents To Trick Their Own Kids For Halloween

My stomach hurts from watching this video.  It is a montage of the results of Jimmy Kimmel’s challenge from Jimmy Kimmel Live to parents on Halloween – Tell your kids that you ate all their candy and video tape the results.

Read the full post -> November 8, 2011 You Tube

Moms Decide to Go Back to Work or Do They Really Have a Choice?

For a mom “to work or not to work, that is the question…”  I was reminded of this very hot topic for mothers recently as I read a post for my new favorite blogger, Penelope Trunk. Her latest post is about her experience with start-ups and how they basically kick your butt!   As a mom [...]

Read the full post -> October 30, 2011 motherguilt

Kelly Perotti on Her Book, Crib Notes, Self-Publishing and Facebook

This post is a best-of  Help4NewMoms and one of my favorite posts, right up there with How the Poseidon Adventure Changed My Life!  Enjoy this and Kelly’s answer to the final question posed to her last week.  You can find author, Kelly Perotti on her website at CribNotesKelly and her Facebook Fanpage. Reposted from June [...]

Read the full post -> October 7, 2011 Author

Andre Aggasi: Book Review:”Open” is a Riveting Pageturner

Thoughts of Andre Agassi might include the following: Tennis. Rebel. Hair. Brooke Shields. Steffi Graff.  Feel free to add one more to the list – Writer. Agassi’s memoir, Open, was released November 2009.  At first, I resisted it.  I’m a tennis player, you see, and I’ve always been a fan of Agassi from the very [...]

Read the full post -> September 27, 2011 Andre Agassi

Stay at Home Mom Job Search Tips: Three Groundbreaking Approaches

Once upon a time, a new mother quits her job to stay home all day and take care of her babies.  Ten to fifteen years later, she determines that either the time is right to return to full-time work or she is pushed kicking and screaming back into the workforce because of the price of [...]

Read the full post -> September 22, 2011 Job Search Tips

Book Review: Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

Creepy, now there’s a word. Entertaining, there’s another word. Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist is both. I am not a huge fan of horror books. Mystery, by all means. Historical Fiction, you bet. But horror?…not so much. The last horror book I can remember reading was Stephen Kings Pet Cemetery and [...]

Read the full post -> September 16, 2011 book review

Fighting Words – Don’t Mess With My Book – Motherhood CAN Get Easier!

What’s the quickest way to end a conversation?  Attack someone on a personal level.  Most folks don’t like confrontation so they will politely, albeit begrudgingly, walk away from a challenge of almost anything to avoid it. Not me, sister! Recently I had a very nasty Amazon review of my book, It Gets Easier and Other [...]

Read the full post -> August 23, 2011 baby schedule

Could a MAN (Tim Ferriss) Have The Answers For Making Motherhood Easier?

I wouldn’t be surprised if a man (gasp!) had the solutions for making motherhood easier.  Today I read an article about Amazon’s trying to increase its share in the publishing world in the NY times Blog.  The article identifies the newest Amazon author, Tim Ferriss, best-selling author of  “The 4 Hour Work Week.” Mr. Ferriss’ [...]

Read the full post -> August 17, 2011 book review

Clever, Creepy, Intense, and Thought-Provoking All At Once: Glow by Amy Kathleen Ryan

Glow, by Amy Kathleen Ryan, is an young adult fiction thriller that is clever, creepy, intense and thought-provoking all at once! It is the first in a series and ends with some answers but with more than a few questions. Here’s my review of Glow: Waverly and Kieran, 15 and 16, are in love. When [...]

Read the full post -> August 9, 2011 book review

Maroon 5 Performs at MusikFest in Bethlehem, PA- Never Gonna Leave This Bed

This weekend I had the pleasure of going to see Maroon 5 at Musikfest in Bethlehem, PA with my thoughtful husband, who surprised me with tickets.  Musikfest is in Bethlehem all week long.  Saturday night, Maroon 5 performed and hot-dam, were they awesome! Here they are playing “Never Gonna Leave This Bed” – the sound [...]

Read the full post -> August 7, 2011 Music

A Year And Six Seconds by Isabel Gillies – A Gutsy Divorce/Husband Cheated/ReMarry Memoir

Review of A Year and Six Seconds, A Love Story by Isabel Gillis I have to admit that when I bought this book, I actually thought it was Isabel Gillies’ first book, “Happens Every Day.” It wasn’t until chapter three that I realized I had the second book, A Year and Six Seconds and not [...]

Read the full post -> August 5, 2011 book review

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