by Joni M Fisher | Feb 1, 2024 | Humor
When my daughter Jessica joined the Junior Varsity Cheerleading squad in high school, I never suspected how much it would demand of both of us. Sure, the girls cheered at football games and basketball games, but these activities merely fronted for the real...
by Joni M Fisher | Apr 20, 2023 | Humor
I have learned that teenagers live in the age of forgetting. Simple skills–even basic rules of civilized conduct–they mastered at age seven disappear at age 14, like closing doors, saying ‘please’ and ‘thank-you’, putting things back where they found them,...
by Joni M Fisher | Apr 15, 2023 | Humor
Since moving to Florida as a Yankee, I’ve learned most things about native pests the hard way. Mutant-size Roaches While unpacking that first week, I learned the two-part horror of what the gentry euphemistically calls a Palmetto bug. The first horror is that it looks...
by Joni M Fisher | Nov 29, 2017 | Book Reviews
An excellent gift for parents of teens and pre-teens, I Wanna Be Sedated: 30 Writers on Parenting Teenagers made me laugh and weep. SOMETIMES YOU LAUGH For a much-needed laugh, read W. Bruce Cameron’s “Teenagers Owner Manual.” His book 8 Simple Rules...
by Joni M Fisher | Sep 25, 2017 | Book Reviews
When widowed retirees Edi and Eli decide to fight boredom and loneliness in sleepy Bexley, Indiana, they turn to mischief, causing great changes to their community. It all begins because Edi misses her late husband Henry and their Martini Afternoons. I suspect author...