All Stressed Up and No Place to Go

by Lori Borgman

Laughter and hope make the best defense against stress. Here, Lori Borgman takes on life's daily pressures with her trademark homespun humor. There's plenty here to make a woman's eyelids twitch: anxiety about love handles; too much tummy; corduroy pants that make a loud swishing sound when she walks; teaching her son to drive a stick shift; the hormonal roller coaster ride of life past forty; and the challenge of being married to a guy who claims...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578602149
• ISBN13: 9781578602148
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Clerisy Press, Emmis Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

You Gotta be 40+, Married with Kids, Then You'll Understand

Lori Borgman writes a column on parenting and family life that is distributed to newspapers all over the country. She even makes getting a traffic ticket funny (Chapter 17). And there's getting the kids to take a bath, and then getting them out of the bathroom (Chapter 7). There's the hormonal roller coaster ride of a female past forty (More than one chapter). This book is a series of what I suppose were newspaper columns (we don't get them here so I can't be sure). There is little of earth shattering importance here, just enough to make you chuckle a bit and make life better than it was. Perhaps my favorite was her learning how to pray -- she was teaching her teenage son how to drive a pickup truck with a manual transmission. Oh how I remember those days. If you're under forty something, if you haven't been married, if you don't have any kids -- you simply won't understand. But for the rest of us, very entertaining reading. She understands our life.