Writing the good read
I don’t know where to begin with you. I’m not going to agree with your Libertarian politics, and you won’t agree with my tree hugging practically communist brand of liberalism. So let’s not try to find common ground there. But here’s something I think we can agree on: freedom of speech. You can’t stand up…
I think the first book I remember my mom giving me was a big yellow hardcover of Maybelle the Cable Car by Virginia Lee Burton (she also wrote Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel). I loved that book and kept it until I was a parent myself. I gave it to my son. He ripped…
The smartest thing I’ve heard recently is a line from In Plain Sight. Everything counts. Everything you say, everything you think, and especially, everything you do. It all counts. Sometimes, the truth hurts, doesn’t it? Sometimes, it can give you a new sense of purpose. I’m hoping it’s the latter for that statement, even if…
Hi, I’m Heather and honored to be guest posting today! Lisa and I share a love of reading, so she asked me to write about books. I’m a YA enthusiast but also enjoy chick lit or a comically written non-fiction from time to time. I read a lot – and friends, both online and off,…
So you don’t think Roman Polanski can be punished? How ’bout you deliver up one of your young daughters to him when she turns 13 in a couple years. If he drugs her and has sex with her, then tell me if you still think that he’s suffered enough. Lisa
I saw the movie Babies today. It’s a lovely film that looks at the first year or so of life of four babies, one born in Mongolia, one in Namibia, one in Japan, and one in San Francisco. That movie taught me a few things. Some may seem obvious, particularly to someone who has been…
Some days, I don’t know how to be a good parent. I have a nearly 13-year-old boy, on the verge of puberty, who already has surges of testosterone that make him difficult and mouthy and mean in a way that my sweet boy of yore never was before. And this boy is autistic. He has…
I like good writing. When I called this blog, Eat, Read and Be Harried, I figured I’d be writing mostly about books. When I think of the boxes into which I can put myself, reader is way up near the top of the list, somewhere after the mom box and before the baseball fan box….
You know the ad with the guy who screams about the great deals? It sucks. And it’s no better now that you’ve added that actor Joey Slotnick. It still sucks. So take it off the air, fire the ad agency, and do something different. Okay? Thanks. Lisa *And that crazily bad advertising agency you’re using.
Jamie Moyer, the 47-year old starting pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies, has long been a favorite player of mine. He’s a gentleman, a philanthropist, and an active parent in the lives of his seven children. In his many years with the Seattle Mariners, I never saw him lose his cool. He was respected by umpires,…
