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I wrote this review for www.BookPleasures.com and decided it is an important enough book to share with visitors to my own blog. DON’T CALL ME MOTHER (New Edition) She Writes Press, 2013 ISBN: 978-1-938314-02-5 A friend once told me, “Your mother is your first best friend.” This is irrevocably true, even if she becomes your worst enemy. What As a final act of sovereignty, we buy Moxie Cosmos Says… It’s 104 degrees F in Tucson today — but, as they say, “it’s a dry heat.” We took a visitor from Cuiliacan, Mexico, to the Arizona Desert Museum last Saturday night, one of the summer evening openings this institution has to allow human beings to view their non-human neighbors who come out at dusk. What are your memories of diasters, and what to you try to  MOXIE COSMOS SAYS . . . I’ve been trying to recall the name on the poster I saw at London’s Gloucester Road Tube Station in 1985 so I can write a post about how I lost music. At that station the platform is not underground; it’s open to the sky above, but high stained brick walls hem MOXIE COSMOS SAYS… From Saint Paul to Wausau and back I crossed a dozen rivers flowing full with water. You can’t imagine how exciting that can be unless you live in the desert West, where “river” means “dry gulch except during monsoon season.” I think it was the Black River that was particularly inviting.  MOXIE COSMOS SAYS . . . . McMansions are out, tiny houses are in. So I bet you think I’m going to say that crowding a family of four into a two bathroom, one living-room home is going to damage little psyches. Where will they play with Wii? Will they need larger earphones? MOXIE COSMOS SAYS . . . Tucsonans often remark how small it is, even after growing from 250,000 in 1970 to a metro million today. We also find we have ongoing connections with certain cities — like Denver and Durango in Colorado, Eugene in Oregon, and, traditionally, as a summer getaway, San Diego. Last year I MOXIE COSMOS SAYS . . . My dad, a safety engineer for an industrial insurance company, had been deferred several times during World War II when finally he was drafted in May of 1945. This was, of course, just at the end of the war. Mother, my baby brother Bob, and I were MOXIE COSMOS SAYS . . . Maxine and Stretch are characters in mysteries by Sue Henry. Stretch is a dog, Maxine the accidental sleuth. Here’s a bit of wisdom I found in her novel THE TOOTH OF TIME: “Somehow I think most people may assume that senior citizens are less inclined to revenge, leaving murder |
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