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Tuesday February 18, 2014

A patchwork memoir

You Fall Off, You Get Back OnKirkus Review calls columnist Mary Stobie's debut book, You Fall Off, You Get Back On: A Patchwork Memoir, "a humorous, thoughtful account with many memorable vignettes." Her writing has been described as "a cross between Will Rogers and Lenore Skenazy" and "part Annie Oakley, part Erma Bombeck and 100 percent original."

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Little boys with hammers

There have been many little boys in the storyline of my life. They have been a mixed bag of babies, toddlers, kids, young men and full grown (but not grown up) ones. They all, from time to time, pick up a hammer, and wield it. No matter what age, they all do the same thing. They weigh it in their hand, look at it for a long moment, savoring the potential. I can still picture my little brother wearing nothing but a diaper stumbling around the house with our father's hammer, ...
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Little boys with hammers

There have been many little boys in the storyline of my life. They have been a mixed bag of babies, toddlers, kids, young men and full grown (but not grown up) ones. They all, from time to time, pick up a hammer, and wield it. No matter what age, they all do the same thing. They weigh it in their hand, look at it for a long moment, savoring the potential. I can still picture my little brother wearing nothing but a diaper stumbling around the house with our father's hammer, ...
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