Moxie:

Highly Recommended

Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi: The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke
Reading this book explained a whole lot of things about why so many families I know are struggling financially, even though we don't spend extravagantly. Simultaneously enlightening and nauseating.
Elizabeth Warren: All Your Worth : The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan
If other personal finance books have frustrated you because they assume you have money to invest and you don't even have enough money to buy a large coffee, this is the personal finance book for you. Reading this book showed me that it's not that I waste money on stupid things--it's that our basic expenses are too high to begin with. Reading this book is the end of financial guilt and the beginning of getting out of the hole.
Adele Faber: Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too
Lots of great ideas to think about and put into practice about not assigning your kids roles and how to approach fights. Also goes over some of the stuff from the How to Talk So Kids Will Listen book about making kids feel understood. Because, really, that's all anyone wants--to be understood. And kids are people, too.
Anne Lamott: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Just perfect. A beautiful, funny, sad, accurate account of what the first days, weeks, and months with a baby are like. This is exactly what your journal would be, if you could write as well as she does.
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc: Random Family : Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
LeBlanc's writing and pacing makes you want to keep reading despite the tragic story. Think you have an informed opinion about welfare reform and how to strengthen families in this country? Not until you've read this book.
John Taylor Gatto: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
This is the red pill. Don't read it if you want to stay comfortable with the American school system. Gatto goes into why government-owned schools were created and the things they actually teach us.
Ellis Avery: The Smoke Week: September 11-21, 2001
If you have any curiosity about what it was like for New Yorkers during the World Trade Center attacks, this is the book to read. A brilliant, crystalline, spot-on memoir of the week or so after the attacks, this book is an ode to New Yorkers. Realistic, clean, and completely un-maudlin, it's just the story of what it was like for us. This is what should go into a time capsule to represent September 2001.

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Moxie, much love to you, your family and Siggy today.

Will thinking of you all day.

Posted by: Sherry | June 16, 2006 at 10:05 AM

I know you don't know me but I can hear your love for Siggy through your words. I'm a cat lover also and I do understand your pain and sadness. Siggy was lucky to have you for her family. I'm crying for you as I think of my Ophelia who passed recently at the age of 19. Thank you for sharing.

Posted by: motherbumper | June 16, 2006 at 10:08 AM

Thinking of you today.

Posted by: Jamie | June 16, 2006 at 10:14 AM

She's beautiful.

Goodbye, Siggy.

Posted by: Molly | June 16, 2006 at 10:21 AM

What a good cat. I'm glad she had a good life and a peaceful death.

Thinking of you.

Posted by: Brooklyn Mama | June 16, 2006 at 10:26 AM

I am so sorry for your loss.

Posted by: Angela | June 16, 2006 at 10:38 AM

I am thinking of you today.

Posted by: Aria | June 16, 2006 at 10:42 AM

Goodbye sweet siggy. I hope you meet Iago and calico in cat heaven and have some great adventures.

Posted by: Sarah | June 16, 2006 at 10:54 AM

RIP, Siggy. I hope the end was peaceful.

Posted by: elecriclady | June 16, 2006 at 11:03 AM

Beautiful Siggy, rest in peace. Thinking of you today, Moxie.

Posted by: Ally | June 16, 2006 at 11:16 AM

I'm so sorry for your loss. It's amazing how something so small can leave behind such a large hole. May your memories of Siggy be a blessing and a comfort.

Posted by: wealhtheow | June 16, 2006 at 11:17 AM

Oh, Miss Moxie.

Posted by: Lisa V | June 16, 2006 at 11:23 AM

Bye, Siggy. Go well.

Say hello to Sam on the other side. He'll be the big chocolate point Siamese with the knowing look. He'll take care of you.

Posted by: Her Bad Mother | June 16, 2006 at 11:24 AM

She is beautiful, and so lucky to have an owner who cares enough to put her needs ahead of their own. May she rest in peace

Posted by: Kathy B. | June 16, 2006 at 11:24 AM

She's beautiful and I know she had a happy, happy life with you and your family.

Posted by: Bethany | June 16, 2006 at 11:54 AM

Thinking of you today. Siggy was lucky and beautiful and is now pain and stress-free, and that is a wonderful thing.

Posted by: Emily | June 16, 2006 at 12:08 PM

I am so sorry for your loss. What a pretty kitty. I know she brought much pleasure to your life. I'm thinking of you and your family today.

Posted by: Colleen | June 16, 2006 at 12:14 PM

so sorry for all of you. siggy is a gorgeous cat -- and a lucky one, too, to have ended up with such a loving family. hang in there.

Posted by: mc | June 16, 2006 at 12:25 PM

i'm very sorry for your loss.

Posted by: wix | June 16, 2006 at 12:31 PM

So very sorry, Moxie. Thinking of your family today.

Posted by: MoMo | June 16, 2006 at 12:33 PM

Siggy, when you get where you are going, please look for Darker, a beautiful midnight black cat and Kieran, a gray and white Manx, and please tell them that I love them and miss them everyday....

Thinking of you Moxie...

Posted by: Sandy | June 16, 2006 at 12:55 PM

I'm so sorry. My only comfort when we had to put our Itty-Bitty cat to sleep was that she was not in pain or discomfort any more. Sending hugs your way.

Posted by: Susan | June 16, 2006 at 04:29 PM

What a beautiful tribute to a loved one. Sending love to y'all.

Posted by: Num Num | June 17, 2006 at 11:23 AM