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Frozen Dinners

Elaine Ambrose's tell-all memoir, Frozen Dinners, "will resonate with anyone who has endured family dysfunction and will defrost the hearts of readers everywhere," says Joely Fisher, actress, singer and author of Growing Up Fisher.

The book, to be published in November, takes a turn from Ambrose's familiar sharp humor and sheds light on a cold childhood that would give rise to her wit and resiliency. An author, blogger and humorist, Ambrose has written eight other books, including Midlife Happy Hour, a finalist for the 2016 Foreword Book of the Year for humor. Her work has recently been showcased in Laugh Out Loud: 40 Women Humorists Celebrate Then and Now…Before We Forget, a collaboration with the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop.

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Teen times, volume two

Fortnite, or correctly spelled: Fortnight. That deliciously English word which means a unit of time of two weeks; ergo, 14 nights. No doubt my first acquaintance with this word was in Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice: "I honour your circumspection. A fortnight's acquaintance is certainly very little. One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight." I'd add to Jane's observation, and wager to say that one cannot know what a man really is even by the ...
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Doing Laundry with B.F. Skinner

I don't mind doing laundry — it's clean and warm at the finish. But what will make me madder than a linen skirt in hot water is finding clean laundry thrown in with the dirty because a teenager doesn't want to take the time to put it away.
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