Don't take my word for it.....

...take Oprah's!

My friend Alice Eve Cohen, an incredibly talented playwright, performer and author has written a memoir. I cannot wait to read it. Now that it has been mentioned in O Magazine, I hope I can get a copy before they all sell out. Check out the fantastic write up below and click to read an excerpt.

Solo theater artist Alice Eve Cohen knew that childbearing was simply impossible - her own mother had taken DES, and Alice had a deformed uterus, among other disqualifiers. So when what doctors misdiagnosed as a tumor turned out to be a 6 - month fetus, the 44 year - old Cohen had to wrestle with the clueless specialists, cavalier insurance companies, and her own no - see - um maternal instincts. Her darkly hilarious memoir, What I thought I Knew (Viking), is an unexpected bundle of joy.

First chapter: Read an excerpt from What I Thought I Knew

By Cathy Medwick from O Magazine, July 2009

Congratulations Alice!!

Browsing Blogs

I have become mildly obsessed with reading blogs. I am trying to figure out this phenomenon. Who is blogging? What are they blogging? And, finally, who is reading all these blogs? I am hooked. I cannot stop. One blog leads to the next, leads to the next...and so on and so on...

In the process, I have come across, old friends, favorite authors, parenting tips, vacation ideas, shopping tips and so much more!

Somewhere, I came across One Kings Lane, a website devoted entirely to sample sale home decor products! They offer housewares and furnishings at discounts of up to 70 percent; there is a new sale every weekday, and each one lasts three days. This week Siena Frames are on sale.