With everything going so right, why is Riki flirting with something so wrong, so.dangerous? Embry Taylor is as devoted to her children as she is to her husband, who's a bartender by night, an aspiring actor by day. If only she didn't have feelings for her neighbor-who happens to be her close friend's husband. Riki McFarlan has a good career and an amazing boyfriend who wants to settle down. But Sylvia's not going to let that happen. The only thing unpredictable about him is his needy ex-girlfriend, who is this close to shattering Sylvia's dreams.

He's sweet, simple, and dependably clueless about what she's up to. All three women who live at 1054 Mockingbird Lane have secrets.and with a body at the bottom of their apartment building's staircase, those secrets need to stay buried. The older title is available at and both books are on Amazon.For three women with so much to hide, there's no such thing as a little white lie. You can pick up the newer title at local booksellers or check it out from the library. Kristin’s collection of essays proves that moms can come out on the other side, maybe still half-insane and with any luck, still not taking ourselves so seriously that we can’t laugh at our saggy boobs, 30-year-old co-workers who are worried they’re getting old, or the perma-frown caused by the two parallel wrinkle lines in between our eyebrows. The follow-up is just as warm and wise as the first, and in my opinion, even wittier. Plus, there isn’t a single mention of social media in it (a good thing, if you ask me).Ī little over ten years later, Kristin published Did I Say That Out Loud? Midlife Indignities and How to Survive Them. Reviewing it again to recommend it here, it has aged well. Using experiences from her own life, Kristen presents terms and concepts in alphabetical order: from absentee parenthood to musical beds to Zuzu’s petals phenomenon – you’ll have to read the book to find out what this is. This book perfectly captures the joys and frustrations of working motherhood. I was in it up to my eyebrows, working from home (more than full-time most days) and hearing questions like, “Why aren’t you more involved in the PTA?” from people who hardly knew me. When I received her first book, Just Let Me Lie Down: Necessary Terms for the Half-Insane Working Mom, as a gift in 2010, my kids were ten, twelve, and fourteen. I first noticed Kristin when she was the editor of Real Simple and immediately fell in love with her personal and powerful writing. She calls the youngest her mid-life crisis baby – she had him at age forty-three – ten years and two miscarriages after her first two boys were born. Kristin van Ogtrop has raised three sons in the suburbs while working high-powered jobs in publishing over the past twenty years. Relatable, funny, and easy to read – Kristin van Ogtrop’s essay collections should be on every mom’s bookshelf (and/or Kindle).

Lie, Lie Again by Stacy Wise