She has that articular way with words and storytelling that makes the most out of learning to deal with grief. Stimson makes great, entertaining reading out of kids’ unusual dating selections, shark attacks, sudden illness, and even an untimely death.
This is life in a state where everyone knows everything, and everything is everybody’s else's business. Now imagine the governor asking you about it! Good Grief is all about the inevitable moment right after somebody says, “What next?”Įllen Stimson’s irrepressible optimism and good humor prevail as she, her two husbands, their three kids, and various much-loved pets face down real life, and even death and grieving, with good humor intact.
Imagine being the mom of the kid who peed on his teacher’s chair. Good Grief tells the tales of the hopes and dreams of parents just trying to do their best-and not always succeeding. Now, having settled the family in Vermont’s rich, muddy soil, they are faced with new challenges of raising kids in the paradise of this very small, very rural town. forever?” So began the series of adventures and misadventures of Ellen Stimson’s hilarious first book, Mud Season.
An endless New England vacation becomes a way of life for one woman and her familyĮllen Stimson and her husband had such a wonderful time in Vermont that they wondered what living there would really be like.
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