Excerpts from Wordstruck! by Susanna Janssen, winner of five national book awards
Mary and the Merry Month of May Spring’s beauty unfolds as wildflowers delight woodland walkers, new foliage glistens on trees, and another wave of blooms graces backyard shrubs. May is the month for patio parties, the dilemma of having to choose from six musical and fundraising events on the same weekend, and colorful festivals all over[…]
Did someone say “brain elixir”? Let’s make it something we can drink, especially if it tastes like piña colada. Or eat, preferably with the flavor and texture of fine dark chocolate. Lacking that, at least give it to us in pill form since this is, after all, 21st century America where we expect things fast,[…]
Valentine’s Day is approaching, but I’m not one to give relationship advice on how to find the perfect mate, how to woo, how to rekindle or glue it back together. Nor would I wish to hold forth on fifty ways to leave your lover.What I propose are novel ideas on what you might whisper in[…]
Back in the “good old” Sacramento days when I wasn’t good and I wasn’t old, my pals and I never got tired of Lefty Daugherty entertaining us with funny little rhymes that rolled off his tongue in oddly accented English that sounded like Eliza Doolittle’s father in My Fair Lady: “Your rattles and jar, that’s[…]
Big and fat or teeny and white, research say that a lie comes at us as often as 200 times a day. Seems impossible until we consider a few sources: on-line dating profiles (90% contain a lie says Scientific American), job resumes (estimates at 40%), family and friends (average 75%), product hype to disappear our[…]