It’s 1962 in Jackson, Mississippi and Aibilene, a black maid, is raising her 17th white child as the Civil Rights movement unfolds around her. Stockett voices pitch-perfect characters on both si...Read More >
Remember when you could sing? Some people still can, but I could only sing when I was a kid. My mother and grandmother taught me to sing. My grandmother, for reasons that escape me, ...Read More >
Every Thursday afternoon, you could find Hazel and Violet Edwards, single sisters in their 50s, sitting in Dr. MacDonald’s small downtown office. Once a week, the optometrist traveled from a ...Read More >
Writing a romance novel can be hard.
Very hard.
Not actually hard like a slow, throbbing, erect dragon waiting to release its masculine fire inside you, but hard like difficult.
This is espec...Read More >
Back in college, I lived on a steady diet of frozen yogurt, falafel, and Simone de Beauvoir. She was my heroine, and her book The Second Sex was my Bible. I also read Germaine Greer and many obscure F...Read More >
By the ripe age of 21, every woman should be able to undo their own bra. As young girls fumbling our way through puberty, we are handed down an age-old technique for bra removal. This little behind...Read More >
In 1965, Dominican diplomat, race car driver, and general man about town Porfirio Rubirosa married his fifth wife, French actress Odile Rodin. He was a young 56. She was a mature 19. When interviewi...Read More >
So, I'd be lying if I said that I didn't like meat, I really would. But, I don't eat very much of it. (Butter, on the other hand, is an entirely different story, and I ha...Read More >
Why does it take external forcing mechanisms to make us do stuff we should already be doing? I’m talking about things like cleaning your house - just before the cleaning lady comes, starti...Read More >
Ok, so I know that I use the phrase "best day ever" way too much, but I really have loads of fabulous days.
Today, I found out that the 6-month, follow-up PET scan that ...Read More >
Here's a little snapshot into my life recently:
We're getting into bed last night and I turn out the light.
"Hubs?"
"Mmmm?" He's laying on his back, way over on his s...Read More >