From Beer to Maternity

For Maggie Lamond Simone, sarcasm was always a means of survival and words her weapon of choice. Her secondgrade teacher worried about a child so flippant at such a tender age. Twenty years later, as a police officer escorted a drunken Simone away from the car she had just wrecked, she asked him to drop her not at home but at the bar where her friends waited. He didnt laugh and she quit drinking the next day. When she finally came up for air a few years later, she was afraid that she wouldnt be funny without the alcohol, but had a startling revelation: she wasnt funny in the first placethe world was. So she started writing about it. This collection of her columns and essays addresses dating, marriage, pregnancy, motherhood and menopause with a caustic wit and a healthy disrespect for perfection.