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Life
May 2019

(subtitle: where the hell have you been?) Hi there! Heck of a month, eh? I can’t quite explain WHY…
May 27, 2019
I live in New Jersey
Friday 5: Break of Day

Oh happy happy day! It’s Memorial Day weekend. This means two amazing things: 1) Eleven Memorial Day weekends ago,…
May 25, 2018
Home and Family
Memorial Day weekend wrap-up

Happy Memorial Day, which is a day we set aside to honor those lost in military service to our…
May 29, 2017

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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