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Home and Family
LadyGypsy versus the ants, Part 2

When we last visited this saga, Pest Control was coming. They came. They left. The ants returned. They’re coming…
May 24, 2007
Home and Family
LadyGypsy versus the ants

Last week there was a note beneath my door: Dear Resident: PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT WESTERN PEST CONTROL WILL…
April 30, 2007
Home and Family, Pets
Charlie, Snuggles, Mickey

From my Treo! Charlie, Snuggles, Mickey. Charlie is really adapting to apartment life! He’s taken to perching on the…
August 11, 2006

I've been blogging for over 19 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 dog Murphy. I used to work a fun (really!) office job in Philadelphia, but since March of 2020 I'm a work from home hermit. 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

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