A month ago, I was surfing Amazon (my other fave site besides etsy), when I came across the book, The Letters, written by Fiona Robyn.
Violet Ackerman has drifted through a career, four children and a divorce without ever knowing who she is or what she wants. After moving to the coast, she starts receiving a series of mysterious letters sent from a mother and baby home in 1959, written by a pregnant twenty-year-old Elizabeth to her best friend. These letters intersperse Violet’s turbulent relationships with her lover, her infuriating son …

I’m picky, let’s be honest. I read A LOT of books, and there are 4 different things I will do with a book when I’m done reading it.

Stack it back up on my bookshelf, never to be read again
Vaguely recommend it to a friend, then stack on the bookshelf
Give a friend the book so she can enjoy its splendor
Email the author, telling her how much I enjoyed the real-life characters and how she surely MUST write a sequel to this book

Wanna guess how many times I’ve done 1-3? Plenty.
Want to …

The same four walls of any cubicle can wear a girl down. I’ve certainly chomped at the bit to do something, anything, more exciting than data entry during my adventures in temping. But I never took it quite as far as Diablo Cody.
You’ve probably heard of Cody from her hit of 2007, Juno, or her recent (and awesome) Showtime show The United States of Tara, but Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper. One day coming home from her job writing ad copy in Minnesota, Cody …

Dr. Karen Gail Lewis’s book and workbook set, With or Without a Man, couldn’t have come my way at a better time. A month ago, I got dumped out of the blue, via email, after 4 months of dating someone.
I thought, “What did I do wrong?” “Who am I without a man?” “Am I destined to be eternally single?”
Dr. Lewis cleared all of that up AND gave me the tools I needed to better understand myself, the pressures society puts on us as women to be in a relationship, and whether …