Drunk Mom: A Memoir

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Those obsessive thoughts were "never easily distracted," making her addiction feel like "a body part. The ultimate Valentine's Day countdown - here are 10 romantic gestures to help sweep your partner off their feet! How to become a digital nomad - and make a living from the BEACH: Experts reveal top tips for a life working. Loath to draw negative publicity to the school, a bastion of European wealth and glamour, officials quickly dismiss the incident as an accident, but questions remain. It is a memoir that pushes at boundaries – what is private, what should perhaps be kept private, what we need to know, what we don’t, what is insightful or just exhibitionism.

Last summer I saw a “me” from 2005 — a long-haired 20-something girl in a ridiculously short pink skirt and heels, walking home through Dufferin Grove Park in Toronto. After Gardner’s talents were finally appreciated by the firm of Bear Stearns, his American Dream became real. She is a born storyteller who lived an incredible story, from blackmail by an ex-boyfriend to a soul-shattering deal with a drug dealer, and her telling brims with suspense and unexpected wit. And because of that, I feel both protective of her and annoyed by her – which is not what an interviewer is supposed to feel.

Facing divorce, the possibility of a grueling custody battle, and internalized racism, Robbins wonders just how much more she can take. Jowita is matter-of-fact, funny, fearless, and irreverent as she lifts the veil to chronicle what it means to be a young mother when both baby and mother have their own bottles — the shame and the inner voices, as well as the joy and relief. Now, in True Stories from an Unreliable Eyewitness, this acclaimed performer channels her creativity inward to share her own story for the first time. What's most harrowing about Drunk Mom is that you can't stop reading it--this, the dark, now-told tale that lurks in the shadow of every seemingly normal family. Kate's long road to recovery: How Princess of Wales plans to 'work from bed' at Windsor and won't be doing.

I’m pushing the stroller through all this windy whiteness, and in my head I count the cans in the diaper bag: There should be four left. A dense, absorbing investigation into the medical community's exploitation of a dying woman and her family's struggle to salvage truth and dignity decades later. Drunk Mom is a rarity in this age of constant overshares--a work that had me questioning, "Does she want us to know this? Jowita is matter-of-fact, funny, fearless, and irreverent as she lifts the veil to chronicle what it means to be a young mother when both baby and mother have their own bottles -- the shame and the inner voices, as well as the joy and relief.She doesn't want it to be about anything more than the words, the sentences, the writing, all of which are skillful, spare, lovely. In the tradition of Orange Is the New Black and Jerry Stahl's Permanent Midnight, Amy Dresner's My Fair Junkie is an insightful, darkly funny, and shamelessly honest memoir of one woman's battle with all forms of addiction, hitting rock bottom, and forging a path to a life worth living.

Serena Williams tries to slip into denim Valentino skirt as a 'goal' five months after giving birth.Medical evidence was unable to rule out the possibility Darrian's death was caused by sudden infant death syndrome before Tilby had rolled onto him. There were dreadful, dreadful incidents throughout the years and you're too young to do anything about it. At the outset of his ruling on Tuesday, Mr Justice Fraser said: 'This is undoubtedly a very tragic case. It] stands as an uncommonly perceptive chronicle of what it means to be an intelligent, urban parent trying to hold on to the rest of her life.