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How do you cope when you wake up one day and learn that your son is a heroin addict? No one is immune to crisis, regardless of the details. Yet, even without challenges, everyday life can push us to the edge. I experienced both-and figured out the only way to deal with it was 15 minutes at a time. During my crisis, a system evolved, one that worked for everything, and still does, to this day. Join me-I'll teach you. We'll laugh (yes, laugh!), learn, and make life better-15 minutes at a time. Mary Fran Bontempo
We women like to talk. We talk to the tune of around 20,000 words per day, if current science is to be believed. We talk to commune with our girlfriends, sisters and mothers, we talk to issue directives to our kids and families, we talk to share our feelings (ad nauseum, if you ask our husbands and partners), we talk at work, we talk at play, sometimes we even talk in our sleep. Words are kind of our thing. We should be word experts. So why is it that certain words send us over the edge? The words that take others to their happy place often make us miserable. Words like "vacation," "dinner," and "holidays" can leave us breathing into a paper bag with our head between our knees. But it doesn't have to be that way. Join Mary Fran Bontempo and redefine the "dirty words" that make women cringe. You'll laugh, learn, make some changes and trim your "dirty words" list down to size!
Women everywhere will find themselves within these pages! Women, wives, mothers, daughters, friends. Hear us roar. Or laugh. Or sigh. Then watch in amazement as we chauffer kids from piano to soccer, pick up the dry cleaning, handle the banking for our husbands, grocery shop, procure nine (or is it eight, now?) Styrofoam balls of varying sizes for a fourth grade science project, recover six awol pairs of dance shoes, sneakers and cleats, wash and deliver a basketball uniform, call our mothers, commiserate with our girlfriends and prepare dinner for a meat eater, vegetarian and a kid who only eats things that are white or brown. Did I mention that we do all of this at the same time? In her Everyday Adventures, Mary Fran Bontempo steers us through the wild ride of modern day womanhood, not always avoiding the pitfalls, but never losing a sense of humor along the way. If you are a woman, youï¿1/2ll find yourself in these pages. Better yet, youï¿1/2ll find reason to laugh once you discover that youï¿1/2ve got plenty of company on your own Everyday Adventures!
We women like to talk. We talk to the tune of around 20,000 words per day, if current science is to be believed. We talk to commune with our girlfriends, sisters and mothers, we talk to issue directives to our kids and families, we talk to share our feelings (ad nauseum, if you ask our husbands and partners), we talk at work, we talk at play, sometimes we even talk in our sleep. Words are kind of our thing. We should be word experts. So why is it that certain words send us over the edge? The words that take others to their happy place often make us miserable. Words like "vacation," "dinner," and "holidays" can leave us breathing into a paper bag with our head between our knees. But it doesn't have to be that way. Join Mary Fran Bontempo and redefine the "dirty words" that make women cringe. You'll laugh, learn, make some changes and trim your "dirty words" list down to size!
It happens to the best of us. On a day like any other, you look in the mirror and find a cranky, worn-out, middle-aged woman staring back at you. A woman who is firmly strapped into a giant pair of GRANNY PANTIES. Yes, aging is inevitable, but looking, and acting, like your grandma is not. So join Mary Fran Bontempo and learn a new set of Commandments that will enable you to avoid the Granny Panties and love life in the middle years. You'll laugh, learn a few things and with any luck, bid a permanent goodbye to GRANNY PANTIES and the old hag in the mirror!