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February 2016

Life
Fitness sucks

My journey towards fitness continues. I embarked on this Quixotic quest for two reasons. The first one is obvious.…
February 29, 2016
I love the Internet, Life
Throwback Thursday. And Friday. And Saturday. And Sunday…

Over 15 years ago I took a sack of photos out from my mother’s house, vowing to sort them…
February 24, 2016
Hobbies, Home and Family, Life, Pets
February update

Hello, lovelies! I was going to quietly sunset this blog after the last post but UGH I miss it…
February 19, 2016

I've been blogging for over 16 years and I'm apparently one of the few over-40 female bloggers who haven't sold out to THE MAN yet; hence this blog remains quirky, homespun and unprofitable. No big.

~~Wife. Dog lover. Slob.~~ I live in Southern New Jersey with my husband WM, and our dogs Ollie and Murphy. I work a fun (really!) office job in Philadelphia. So if you're looking for a childless, slightly round, marginally boring GenX woman's blog to follow, you've come to the right place! :)

Kimberly's bookshelf: read

The Awakening

by Kate Chopin

Welp, that ended abruptly. The version I have includes additional short stories, which I thought were part of the book, so when this story ended, I thought the second half of the book would be the others' responses to ... the events that...

tagged: fiction, women, and own-ebook

We Should All Be Feminists

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

So very good. Beautifully written, and really hits home. It was refreshing to read about feminism in a viewpoint other than that of my white, middle-aged, ladyfriends. :) Every middleschooler should be issued a copy of it. It was supe...

tagged: nonfiction, borrowed-from-library, and women

Hidden Figures

by Margot Lee Shetterly

tagged: nonfiction, history, and women