Category Archives: Entertainment

The Seasonal, Annual, Holiday, Snuffling Cold

Posted on November 28, 2012 by This Woman Writes

I feel yucky. My nose is stuffed, I cough — twice — every 30 seconds, I can’t hear through the plugging of my ears, there’s a chill that has nothing to do with a draft, my lithesome form drapes lethargically … Continue reading →

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The Jane Austen Cocktail Party Game

Posted on October 10, 2012 by This Woman Writes

Halloween is weeks away, and we all know what that means. Yep. Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat (by the way, have you, or anyone you know, ever actually eaten a goose?), and the round of cocktail parties … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Beauty, blogging, books, Christmas, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, Entertainment, games, home, Humor, Job, Life, Lifestyle, movies, News, Personal, Random, Relationships, success, Uncategorized, Work | Tagged Christmas, cocktail, Jane Austen, party, Pride and Prejudice | 4 Comments

Snow Patrol: I Love You, but My Family Doesn’t

Posted on September 26, 2012 by This Woman Writes

The atmosphere in the car crackled with hostility. (How is that for a cheesy, spy novel introduction?) I had just taken over the wheel, prepared to drive the mind-numbingly boring section. The Norwegian Artist, who, per our long understood agreement … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, blogging, cars, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, Entertainment, Family, home, Humor, Life, Lifestyle, Motherhood, music, News, Parenting, Personal, Random, Relationships, shopping, travel, Uncategorized, vacation | Tagged car, CD, drive, music, Snow Patrol, travel, vacation | 6 Comments

E-book — The Jane Austen Driving School

Posted on July 31, 2012 by This Woman Writes

The newly published Jane Austen Driving School is the second volume in the Ordinary Life Is Beautiful E-book Series, adding to the stories and illustrations of Life Is a Gift. Thirty short, easy-to-read, fun and funny stories bring readers into … Continue reading →

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New E-Book — Life Is a Gift

Posted on July 9, 2012 by This Woman Writes

Just published with Amazon e-books, Life Is a Gift is a series of 30 short, upbeat essays about life with the Norwegian Artist, the Progeny, and the rotating assortment of animals on the studio farm. Drawn from a compendium of … Continue reading →

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Lost in the Box Store — Where Are the Socks?

Posted on May 31, 2012 by This Woman Writes

For years, whenever I wanted to fully express the abject monotony of a mind-numbingly tedious task, I drew upon the comparison of buying a pack of socks. How wrong I was. Humbled now, wrung by a recent shopping ordeal, I … Continue reading →

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I Am (amazon) Woman — Hear Me Roar!

Posted on May 23, 2012 by This Woman Writes

It was — literally — a small thing that I wanted, but my entire family gaped at me in horror, as if I had brightly announced, “I think I’ll sell my body on the streets to pick up a little … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Beauty, blogging, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, Entertainment, Family, Humor, Life, Lifestyle, Motherhood, News, Parenting, Personal, Random, Relationships, technology, Uncategorized | Tagged amazon, book, e-reader, Kindle, library | 5 Comments

Reality TV Shows: Your Real Life Is So Much Better

Posted on May 9, 2012 by This Woman Writes

I’m sure that you’re all very nice people, but please don’t be offended if I say that I’m not interested in watching your lives on a reality show. You certainly don’t want to see mine. Like now — I’m sitting … Continue reading →

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The Grown-Up World of Make Believe

Posted on February 23, 2012 by This Woman Writes

Movies aren’t real. While ostensibly, most grownups agree on this, we frequently don’t act as if we do. It’s not so much that we look over our shoulders for zombies or vampires as that we gaze at our bathroom scales, … Continue reading →

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The Jane Austen Driving School

Posted on November 3, 2011 by This Woman Writes

If Jane Austen were alive today, she would add a few more universal truths to the observation she’s known for – you know, the one about a wealthy man being in dire need of a wife. A driving Jane Austen … Continue reading →