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BOOKS OF REFLECTIONS AND RIFFS
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Books to help you chase away those down-in-the-dumps feelings that flatten everyone from time to time. Included are dozens of suggestions that will work to beat the blues or will lessen your pains and aches.
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If You’re Having a Crummy Day,
Brush Off the Crumbs
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The beginning 50 pages of Crummy Days were written with the Jacksonville Peripheral Neuropathy Support Group from Jacksonville, Florida. The book is comprised of a list of coping tips for people who live with neuropathy. It was the springboard leading into the coping book that followed several years later.
The second half of the book consists of vignettes and anecdotes to take people’s minds away from their pain no matter what their ailment is.
When the Refrigerator Got Feet is about the silly goings on of moving a fridge in the kitchen ... and a discussion about hamsters.
Why Don’t We Have an Estate Sale? is about the mayhem that ensued when a wayward car --- because the driver’s foot was stuck on the accelerator ---nearly caused devastation on a neighbor’s lawn.
My Mother, the Bullfighter. She was only a bullfighter in her mind but her tough attitude taught me how to hang tough ... most of the time.
Free to Be an Electronics Moron. How the words “read the directions” make me break out in a cold sweat. And we’re only talking about a phone here.
God, Please Be There. This is a Thank You Note. This was a note to God, thanking Him for coming up with menopause just when women need it.
Goo, Glorious Goo is about the time I turned my fingers into a mess of paraffin taffy.
Anonymity is a Good Thing. On the joys of being ordinary, and being fine about it. Yes, it is a joy to not be stared at when you’re eating corn on the cob in a restaurant.
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Seaside Scribblings
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Seaside Scribblings: Of Family, Florida, and Furry Friends is due out in 2011. It is a compilation of 50 “riffs” on such topics as:
FAMILY:
Misplacing Baby: When baby was left in a carriage outside a Gristede’s grocery shop in the middle of Manhattan.
Born to Snooze: When a third place medal did not deserve any accolades at all.
In Training: On taking the train and bus to school 30 miles away and how it doesn’t kill you.
Porch Tails: What it was like on a porch, in Larchmont, New York, in the 50s, on a lazy late afternoon in summer.
My Almost Deployment: On almost making it to help people during the aftermath of hurricane Katrina.
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FLORIDA:
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Marketing Your Monster: How writing can nearly bankrupt you if you try hard enough.
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Expensive Bugs: You may never eat lobster again.
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Sex and Death: You know you’ll turn to that one first. (Sorry, it’s about ... gardening.)
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Behold the Handbag: Who knew the tiniest bags could cost the most?
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Putting Up With Putting Up Guests: There is no cure for inviting guests to stay with you.
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FURRY FRIENDS:
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Dear Bromley: About a dear bear of a dog who deserved better.
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That’s My Baby: A near-brush with jail for me and my dog.
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Being a Foster Parent to Kitties: In case you get inspired.
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A Cat-And-Dog House: Yes, it can work.
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Lily Becomes Blizzard: A trick to save your dog’s life
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