Normal's Just a Cycle On a Washing Machine (eBook)

A Memoir

Len Bourland (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016 | 1. Auflage
200 Seiten
Bookbaby (Verlag)
978-0-9977415-1-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Len Bourland was living the quintessential Reagan stay-at-home mom dream in Big D, the land of big hair and even bigger aspirations. There was a new van in the driveway of the new 'grown-up' home, the new puppy romping in the backyard with the three kids, and the surgeon husband bringing home the bacon while Len penned an award-winning column about it all for the local paper. So when the other Big D turned Len's idyllic world inside-out and upside-down, she did what she had to do: got a job, got a grip, and got back to writing. Collected here are her revised and updated columns, at turns hilarious and poignant, that together tell the story of a mother who manages to keep it all together---and regain her sense of humor in the process. It's a smile while taking a nostalgic trip down memory lane that will delight and inspire mothers and their children at any age.

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The witty memoir of local Dallas writer/mother Len Bourland as glimpsed through excerpts of her award winning columns from the Reagan Era to whatever this era is now. Sort through your laundry with hers as she begins in the Pre-soak halcyon days of a carpooling doctor's wife and her Normal years of raising two sons and a daughter to her Spin Cycle of divorce and depression. In her Second Cycle her load increases as she emerges as a working mother of adolescents who begins dating just as they do in the consumer 90s and New Milennium. With poignancy and humor she deftly brings us full cycle in her concluding Gentle Wash. Her wry insights provide more than just a fast paced rollicking read as her recalibration of life reflects changes of society as a whole as we wash, spin, repeat. Len is the self-described child of the international corporate move and has many readers as she often broadcast her columns on KERA, local Dallas NPR.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
• ISBN-10: 0-9977415-1-1 / 0997741511
• ISBN-13: 978-0-9977415-1-3 / 9780997741513