Maryellen’s Monday Morning Musings
This week’s review: THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS by Elizabeth Gilbert After finishing this book, I feel like I need to just rest. This book will take us from England to Tahiti to Amsterdam to...
View ArticleWould you rather . . . ?
You know the game. Would you rather eat a Rocky Mountain Oyster or french kiss a mule? Would you rather do something valuable with your time or take a glimpse into the sickness that lives within...
View ArticleThe (BooK) MusiKal Dok
This week’s review: NBC’s live performance of THE SOUND OF MUSIC Starring: Carrie Underwood and Stephen Moyer Televised Date: December 5, 2013 My Review: Culture? Musicals? Classics? I’m a girl...
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This week’s review: HUMANS OF NEW YORK by Brandon Stanton Are you a people-watcher? I am. I love sitting on a bench on the boardwalk, watching the people go by and imagining their lives. In HUMANS OF...
View ArticleMy Bag of Crazy
My husband says I’m “rough around the edges.” My current shrink says my mind is in a state of transition, and I may be prone to emotional lability while my neurons sort themselves out. My last shrink...
View ArticleThe BooK Dok — Diagnosing BooKs One at a Time
“This Sucks!” I mean, like super sucks! I recently read a medical thriller that was so truly awful, it pissed me off. The story line was completely implausible. Medical facts were as wrong as wrong...
View ArticleIt’s Just a Lockdown — One Mother’s Perspective
Yesterday around 12:30 p.m., a local television station reported “shots fired” and an “active shooter” at Arapahoe High School in Littleton, Colorado. Like most midday news, I allowed approximately...
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This week’s review: A Christmas Home by Greg Kincaid When Todd McCray was a teenager he became a hero to his community by helping the local animal shelter with a program that would have foster homes...
View ArticleDear 2013 . . .
Dear 2013, You suck! I mean it. You really, really suck! You gave my dog cancer. You gave my teenage daughter hormones. You destroyed my career as a physician. At times, you challenged my...
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This week’s review: THE CHRISTMAS ANGEL by Jane Maas When in 1875 Owen Thomas, a poor Welsh coal miner, met Jessica Lavery, an actress from London, for him, it was love at first sight. As a show of...
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