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Judy Gruen

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imageFor reasons that mystify me, not a single university invited me to deliver a commencement address this year. This, despite my having emailed more than 450 such institutions, alerting them to my availability and modest speaking fees. Sure, I may not be famous in the crude, “Entertainment Tonight” sense of the word, but I challenge those more illustrious guests to match my qualifications.

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Average rating: 3.58 · 55 ratings · 33 reviews · 4 distinct works · Similar authors
Till We Eat Again: A Second...
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions
The Women's Daily Irony Sup...
3.06 of 5 stars 3.06 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2007
Carpool Tunnel Syndrome: Mo...
2.0 of 5 stars 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2000 — 2 editions
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4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011

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The Women's Daily Irony Supplement (Humor)
1 chapters   —   updated Mar 29, 2010 04:32pm
Description: A collection of hiliarious essays on men, motherhood, why bad contractors happen to good people, the lure of exotic, foreign moisturizers, and other women's obsessions.

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For reasons that mystify me, not a single university invited me to deliver a commencement address this year. This, despite my having emailed more t... read more »
The Family Man by Elinor Lipman
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The Family Man by Elinor Lipman
The Family Man
by Elinor Lipman
read in May, 2013
This was my first Elinor Lipman novel but it sure won't be the last. This novel is funny, bright, light, intelligent, and also touching, all in under 300 pages!
Henry Arhcer is the gay ex-husband of an exasperating woman named Denise, who has just los...more
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Foods That Harm, Foods That Heal by Alasdair McWhirter
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Cooking Light The New Way to Cook Light by Cooking Light Magazine
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Doublelife by Harold  Berman
Doublelife
by Harold Berman (Goodreads Author)
read in April, 2013
Gayle Redlingshafer grew up on a farm and as an adult became a minister of music at a Texas mega-church. Harold Berman was a secular Jew from New York. When they married, they agreed on a few things: they would never have children, and religion would...more
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“You know you're a mom when you open the door to the dishwasher mid-cycle and think, 'This is the closest I'm going to get to a spa treatment till next Mother's Day.'"

"Joining the words 'Lose Weight, Effortlessly!' in the same sentence may be a form of hate speech."

"Try to make time for the things that are important, not just the things that are urgent."

"I want my work to matter, my words to count for the good, and to spread some good cheer along the way.”
Judy Gruen

“You know you're a mom when you open the door to the dishwasher mid-cycle and think, 'This is the closest I'm going to get to a spa treatment till next Mother's Day.'"

"Joining the words 'Lose Weight, Effortlessly!' in the same sentence may be a form of hate speech."

"Try to make time for the things that are important, not just the things that are urgent."

"I want my work to matter, my words to count for the good, and to spread some good cheer along the way.”
Judy Gruen

“Don't be so humble - you are not that great.”
Golda Meir

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We'll read one bestseller a week - for the full details, check out my article on the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/catherine-mckenzie...more



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rivka The old photo was lovely, but I really like the new one!


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