I am writing this review before finishing the final book in the series which is difficult partly because I don’t know if the ending of the trilogy will be satisfactory and also because I am rushing through the review to get back to reading the final book.  I’m actually mad at myself right now because [...]

Some of you may have followed the saga of me trying to get my hands on a free copy of Sliding Into Home by Kendra Wilkinson with Jon Warech, a real professional writer who I hope got paid a LOT of money to put up with Kendra’s giggle). You can read all the letters I [...]

Have you read Emily Giffin’s wonderful two-book set Something Borrowed and Something Blue? The first book is the story of a woman who wakes up after a drunken night wherein she slept with her best friend’s fiance.  In the second book, we see the conclusion of the best friend’s story. The two books dovetail beautifully [...]

I’m going to come clean right at the outset here: I don’t love Kathy Griffin.  I’m sure this is a bit surprising because I love cussing and making fun of celebrities and she does both of those things prodigiously.  She’s also a favorite among gay guys and I’m usually a big fan of things gay [...]

I’m in the middle of If You Knew Suzy by Katherine Rosman.  The book is a memoir of a reporter’s investigation of her mother after her untimely death from cancer.  Close though Rosman was to her mother, by calling people from her mother’s address book in the years after her death, she found there was [...]

As I write this, I just got home from one of the most awesome events of my (short) blogging life.  It was the Silicon Valley Moms Groups Brand/Blogger event for DC Metro Moms and some Philly Moms. There were about 15 major brands present, all of them wanting input from mom bloggers on how to [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about the complex roles women play in one another’s lives recently.  Blogging has catapulted me into an intricate web of relationships with other bloggers, Facebookers, and Tweeters out there, most of them women.  They are gradually turning into an indispensable part of my daily life and I look forward to [...]

Because I love you all so very much, I sometimes take it upon myself to do things are gross, repugnant, and totally weird simply for the purpose of entertaining you. Case in point, my reviews of the Twilight saga.  What’s that? You think I liked Twilight?  Ok, yeah maybe I enjoyed reading those books a [...]

Those of you who tune in regularly here, probably read about my long, occasionally, stormy relationship with Tori Spelling last week.  So, you know that while I feel like Tori and I are solid right now, I also know that we could turn on each other that any moment.  Like what happened with the third [...]

Click here to enter the Modern Bird Studios custom art giveaway! *** I have had a long, tumultuous relationship with Tori Spelling.  When Beverly Hills 90210 first debuted, I spent my days dressed in black, wearing black eyeliner, white powder and red lipstick, reading ee cummings, and only attending films that could be seen at [...]