Cordelia's Mom, Still

Poke Salad, Exploding Babies, Flying Cats & Dogs! Oh, My!

Posted on September 5, 2016 by cordeliasmom2012

AVAILABLE ON AMAZON! (click image)

(ALSO IN KINDLE FORMAT – CLICK HERE)

I am honored that Linda Bethea asked me to review her new book, “Everything Smells Just Like Poke Salad.“

Knowing Linda’s work from her blog, I expected a book full of humor and those down-home stories we all love.

But I was a little nervous. What if I didn’t like the book after all? I told Linda I would give my honest opinion – what if I were forced to do just that? Would I be willing, and able, to hurt a friend’s feelings by honestly reporting that her book stunk? After all, I am Cordelia’s Mom, and my readers expect the truth from me (well, except when I write as Not CM, of course, but even then there’s a certain amount of dark truth in there somewhere).

Anyway.

There must, in fact, be a God in Heaven because the book was wonderful! It is the story of Linda’s mother, Kathleen, who grew up during the Depression, when food was scarce, money was even scarcer, and kids were expected to “earn their keep.” It starts off with Linda’s usual delightful tales of her somewhat dysfunctional family, but then Kathleen becomes a young woman.

And it becomes a love story, a beautiful love story with all the ups and downs of a marriage entered into at too young an age. I found myself totally immersed in Kathleen’s situation as a young wife forced to live with unwelcoming and extremely poor in-laws. I won’t go into any greater detail than that because I want you all to go out and buy the book on Amazon – it’s available in both Kindle and paperback. Let me just say, the final page left me wanting more. If I had the funds right now, I would immediately catch a plane to go give hugs to Kathleen and Linda. They know how to prevail and how to make life exciting!

Go – right now – and get your copy. You’ll be glad you did.

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Image by Kathleen Swain/Linda Bethea (click on image for link to book)

Posted in Humor, Previews, That's Life | Tagged blogging, books, depression, dyfunctional families, Kathleen Swain, Linda Bethea, love, marriage, Nutsrok | 11 Comments

Weekend Under a Full Moon (Re-Blog)

Posted on August 28, 2016 by cordeliasmom2012

What freaky timing! This just popped up on my personal Facebook page as a memory from 2 years ago, and hubby and I are planning to go TODAY to check out new vehicles as his car lease is up soon. Enjoy!

Cordelia's Mom, Still

My life is usually pretty boring, but every once in a while I have a non-routine weekend. This particular weekend, there was a full moon – whether that contributed to the events, I don’t know.

Friday

On Friday, I had a day off from work because it was my IV infusion therapy day. I don’t know about anyone else, but I’d much rather have needles stuck in various places and weird fluids pushed through my veins than to deal with my boss.

So, Friday actually started off ok. I slept in a bit, did a few light chores and got ready for my therapy.

Then I got the call from the large electronics store where I had purchased my TV.

Here’s the back story:

On the 21^st of last month, my 28” TV/DVD player croaked. It was only 6 months old and under warranty, so hubby and I…

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Posted in Re-Blogs, Road Trips & Cars, That's Life | Tagged car buying, car dealership, cars, Cody, computers, electronics, Puppy Cody | 1 Comment

Answering the Call

Posted on August 24, 2016 by cordeliasmom2012

Apparently, the Powers That Be don’t want me to miss a post this week.

It’s been stressful adjusting to the new job and schedule, and I’ve been so tired that all my story ideas simply dried up (hence, the photo – duh).

But then I received a notification from WordPress congratulating me on my three-year anniversary.

Happy Anniversary with WordPress.com! You registered on WordPress.com 3 years ago. Thanks for flying with us. Keep up the good blogging.

So I now had something with which to start a post!

But what to say? And when would I find time to say it?

And – then I received a Facebook reminder of something I wrote three years ago right after I published my About page:

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August 24, 2013

Blog almost there. Just waiting for final input from my personal editor and personal artist. It so nice to have talented people in the family! Maybe I should also get my violinist/guitarist/singer to create a theme tune for me …

I love you girls!

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Now I knew I had to write something! No matter how long a day I had, and no matter how tired I might be.

And the icing on the cake? In today’s mail, I received my copy of Linda Bethea‘s book, Everything Smells Just Like Poke Salad. Linda has asked me to read and review, and I can’t even express how honored I am that another blogger has asked for my opinion about anything!

AVAILABLE ON AMAZON! CLICK ON PHOTO FOR LINK.

Also in today’s mail were my new Puppy Cody and Japanese Garden coffee mugs and my son-in-law’s new Teddy Rosalie baseball cap from Café Press (see sidebar, hint hint).

Looking forward to a weekend of fun reading – and fresh coffee in my new mugs! I’ll let you know what I think of Linda’s book soon – I expect it’s going to be awesome like everything she writes on her blog (check that out, here!).

Ain’t blogging great?

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I love to hear from my readers. You may comment on this post, comment on my Facebook or Twitter pages, or email me at cordeliasmom2012@yahoo.com

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Images by Cordelia’s Mom

Posted in Awards, Photography, Relationships, That's Life | Tagged anniversary, blogging, books, Linda Bethea, Nutsrok, Wordpress, writing | 27 Comments

The Office

Posted on August 17, 2016 by cordeliasmom2012

THE NEW “OFFICE” – IF I HAVE EVEN ONE DONUT, I WON’T FIT INTO IT. PROBABLY JUST AS WELL.

Please don’t misunderstand – I’m extremely grateful to have a job, and a good job at that!

The people at the new firm are very easy to work with, the commute is short and usually uneventful, and thus far my duties have not been mind-boggling. While I expect the work load to increase dramatically in the next couple of weeks (once I’ve acclimated to the new procedures and computer system), I don’t expect it will ever be as stressful as the place I just left.

I do, however, miss having a door I could shut, and a window (actually, lots of windows!)

MY WINDOW IN MY OLD OFFICE

Once again, I find myself working in a converted large house. My husband scoffed when I came home the first day and told him I believed my new work space used to be one of the linen closets (see photo at the head of this post). But at least it’s my space, and it’s not a cubicle set with dozens of other cubicles into one large area.

I’ve been told that the firm will soon be expanding into adjacent space currently occupied by another attorney and his staff, who will be moving in a month or so. Maybe at that point (if I’ve proved myself worthy), I can score a larger “office” – certainly something to look forward to.

Meanwhile, I’ll work my not-so-little butt off so that my much-admired new boss doesn’t regret having hired me.

And just so I won’t feel too claustrophobic, I created a “window” on that huge computer monitor, using this photo for the display: