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Meal Plan Monday February 13

2/13/12 7:50am by sassymonkey in Loving food and sharing recipes! Comments (8)
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I am sick of roast chicken. I'm not a big fan of chicken anyway (two bouts of salmonella in ten years will do that to a person) but I do eat it. Occasionally. Except whole chickens keep going on sale and we keep buying them and gah, tired of roast chicken. Because really, in the end it all more or less tastes the same even if I rub it with different spices and I am bored of something I don't like very much in the first place. There are still two more whole chickens in the freezer. Yay?  Read more >

Author Jeffrey Zaslow Dies in Car Accident at 53

2/10/12 3:26pm by sassymonkey
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Jeffrey Zaslow

Best-selling author and journalist Jeffrey Zaslow died February 10 in a car accident in Michigan. He was 53. His loss is felt keenly in the BlogHer community. We had the privilege of working with Mr. Zaslow, and his most recent book, The Magic Room, was one of our BlogHer Book Club selections.  Read more >

Have You Been on a Picnic?

2/9/12 2:08pm by sassymonkey
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In Seré Prince Halverson's The Underside of Joy, Ella found herself faced with many decisions after Joe's death. Most, especially those involving the children, were difficult to make. Perhaps the one I enjoyed the most was what she decided to do with the failing family business.  Read more >

Which Of The Weird Sisters Are You Most Like?

2/8/12 7:18am by sassymonkey
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Eleanor Brown's The Weird Sisters is the story of three sisters. They are bound by familial love, but really they don't particularly like each other. They are too different from one another and were never really bothered to get to know one another until they are all called home by their mother's illness.  Read more >

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Full Name
Karen Ballum
Member Since
January 2006
About Me: 

Hi, I'm Karen Ballum. but I'm better know around the web as Sassymonkey.

I live in Ottawa, Ontario -- Canada's national capital. (No, I do not work politics or the government.) Keeping me company are my husband and cat, commonly known on the internet as the Fake Husband and the Fake Cat. Last I checked they were both still very real to most people but according to Denise, it's not real unless she can see it.

I have been blogging since 2004 on my personal blog, Sassymonkey.ca, and started my book blog, Sassymonkey Reads, in August of 2005. I read a lot and found I was starting to forget which books I had read and what I had thought of it. So I started my book blog as way of helping me track the books I had read.

I may have a slight addition to the overuse of parentheses. (Maybe.) (Sometimes.) (It's a sickness but one I am not seeking help for.)

I am the Section Editor for Books here on BlogHer as well as the BlogHer Book Club Host.

Location: 
Ottawa, Canada
 

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