Read My Lipstick...

Pucker up! I can ID my friends' lip prints!

Red clay and rust were the first order of business used to tint the lips of ancient ladies. Cleopatra wore crushed carmine beetles (with ants!)... I can just picture her commanding Caesar, “Kiss me, you fool!” 

Enterprising ingenues created shimmering effects rubbing fish scales on their mouths, mmm. By Medieval times, lipstick was banned by the church; worn only by prostitutes, those foot soldiers of Satan.

SWAK! This foot soldier is on an eternal quest for the perfect pout; aren’t we all? What’s your favorite lipstick?

The Body of Gluten-Free Christ...

These new certified GF (Gluten-Free) rice crackers totally taste like the BOC, baptized in salt, anointed in cheese. Bless me Father for I have sinned...it may be going on a kazillion years since my last confession, but, holy cow, eating these crackers is a form of penance. (They don't taste very good, but it feels like the right thing to do...) Amen.

Don't Laugh...

OK, you can laugh. My husband has fallen in love with his Five Fingers. (Get your mind out of the gutter, please.) Apparently, this revolutionary (transformer-looking) footwear is the answer to all the world's ills. He claims he can run faster, jump higher, dance better, all with no foot pain! He says it improves posture, digestion, depression, congestion (but apparently not exaggeration). He wants to share the love, or perhaps the laughter.

Could be worse. Could be Crocs.

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I can't remember what I had for breakfast, but I can remember Jenny's phone number?

Good Times at GoodReads!

The Kitchen Shrink by Dee DeTarsio

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


I had so much fun writing this, I had to give myself FIVE stars, count 'em, FIVE. (Bless me Father for I have sinned...It has been about a million years since my last confession, but if you're keeping track, I did say 14 Hail Mary's after posting this--is that the going rate for being obnoxious?)



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BFF!

Who is your BFF-Best Fictional Friend? 

BFF

I was so excited to have the chance to see this amazing painting by Botticelli, Primavera, which hangs in the Uffizi museum in Florence, Italy. (Although there was that little incident where my husband lost me at the Uffizi. I clearly said, "I'll wait right here for you," which he somehow interpreted as me saying: "I'm going to go down those three sets of stairs, through a museum shop, past the security guard and out the green door." All's well that ends well...and with a glass of vino!)

This significance of this painting is the central theme to the historical fiction novel, The Botticelli Secret by Marina Fiorato, and introduced me to one of my BFFs, Luciana Vetra. As much as I loved reading this book, I also lamented that I will never be able to write like that!

I'm also thoroughly entertained by Isabel Spellman (thanks Lisa Lutz!), all of the Walsh sisters (PLEASE friend me, Marian Keyes!) and I have a new BFF, India Black, (courtesy of the wonderful Carol Carr!).

Who's your BFF?

Sticks and Stones...

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words, labels and categories can make or break new authors...The Scent of Jade is keeping some pretty amazing company in the dream category of Women's Literary Fiction, on Amazon UK:

Now, if only Marian Keyes would friend me!