| Description |
xiv, 255 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Do pigs go to heaven? On catching a dream -- Guys and dolls -- Little men and Little Women -- A stand-up mom -- No time for lamb cakes -- Loneliness of the long-distance talker -- Dare to say "underwear" -- An elf is just an elf -- The Martha's out to lunch -- Do pigs go to heaven? -- Honey, it's not over till I say so -- It's a jungle gym out there -- Love on the hard shell -- My son the warrior -- Lost: one best friend -- All the little live things -- Give them a mile and they'll go the distance -- My angels in the outfield -- Where the deer and the squirrels display -- When you're out with the in crowd -- Out of the mouths of babes -- Pencil me in, Son -- Homefires. In a heartbeat, new life -- When I lost my security blanket -- A Cheesehead lament. |
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Cont.): The dark side of the road -- How now, the vanishing cow -- Bonfire of the insanities -- A quiet place, and green -- The place where magic lives -- Natural causes. The mother of my child -- The last first birthday -- Trusting the kindness of strangers -- The truth about that perfect shot -- One carpool, minus one mom -- Enter the cowboy -- Little house of life lessons -- Tragedy in a bottle -- Just the truth, Kids, not the facts -- Better scared than scarred -- Marking time -- The mothers in us all -- A day that will live in infancy -- Stars to steer by. The late great me -- Love is not a warm puppy -- Tomorrow (or tomorrow or tomorrow) -- A star to steer by -- One giant step for womankind -- Family by accident and choice -- Friendships worth fighting for. |
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Cont.): Intimate strangers. Who's right? Who's wrong? Who's Mom? -- Rude and unusual punishment -- The long shadow of Dr. Death -- What she did for love -- A farewell to football -- An abuse of faith -- My best buds, the Brontës -- The Citadel: disgrace under pressure -- Daddy got his gun -- Houselights: Good-bye my ghosts -- True tales of the kissing patrol -- When a victory garden isn't -- Tupperware is life -- The power towel -- Sorting out a life -- The Pied Piper of Madison -- All through the night -- Home cooking in the drive-through lane -- The worms crawl in -- my house? -- Twinkle, twinkle, musical stars of mine -- Season's readings. A dad for all reasons -- To forgive, but not forget -- Someday, they'll thank me for this. |
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Cont.): Giving holidays to the turkeys -- Let there be lights -- Just before dark -- Each day's joy -- The quality of mercy is still strained -- The great green garage sale -- Death takes a holiday -- The sheer joy of nothing much -- The Christmas nobody wanted -- Epilogue: the prime of Miss Late Bloomer. |
| Summary |
For ten years of Sunday mornings, readers of Jacquelyn Mitchard's newspaper column, "The Rest of Us", have been calling their mothers, boyfriends, and sisters to say. "See? That's exactly what I meant!" Now syndicated in newspapers nationwide, Mitchard's clear-eyed takes on everyday life in process are described over and over as "a letter from home", and "the kind of story you keep under your pillow". In this collection, readers can share the exuberant wisdom of this woman writer who has seen it all. |
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Housewives -- Humor.
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Women -- Humor.
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Housewives. (OCoLC)fst00962210
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Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
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| Genre/Form |
Humor. (OCoLC)fst01423696
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Mitchard, Jacquelyn. Rest of us. New York : Viking, ©1997 (OCoLC)762229745 |
| ISBN |
0670876623 (alk. paper) |
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9780670876624 (alk. paper) |
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