Cathy Hamilton: 13 books

Cathy Hamilton calls them exactly as she sees them. Sometimes she's sharp, sometimes she cuts close to the bone, but always she's flat-out funny and insightful. Readers can't help but laugh.........even at themselves. Whether focused on motherhood, fatherhood, being a kid, dieting, dating, or friends,...

Menopause means . . . breaking down in sobs at the checkout counter when you realize you love Costco more than your husband." --Menopause Means . . . Never Having to Say You're Chilly* Cathy Hamilton humorously defines exactly what it means to grapple with simultaneous hot flashes, memory loss,...

Faster than a sudden mood swing, more powerful than +3.0 reading glasses, able to sleep five hours in a single night! Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane . . . (Holy hot flash, Batman!) . . . it's Boomer Girl!Picking up where Wonder Woman left off, Cathy Hamilton humorously celebrates...

Who else but a mother would drive at breakneck speed, ignoring traffic signs and risking her preferred driver status, just to make it to a soccer match on time?How do you thank a mom who goes above and beyond her motherly duty? You could present her with clunky ceramic candlesticks made in...

Who else but a father would persist, all afternoon, in trying to get a stubborn kite to achieve lift-off, even long after the kids have gone inside to watch TV? -Cathy Hamilton, Who Else but a Father?Fathers are a rare, special breed, prone to over-the-top yet endearing behaviors that set them...

'Is that what you're going to wear?' Used indiscriminately for sons, daughters, and husbands, this one is a not-so-subtle attempt to make family members rethink their wardrobe choice." Deciphering the clandestine conspiratorial language that all moms know and use to full effect, Cathy Hamilton translates...

380 WORDS Ms. Itsy web-floated a little too far this time and found herself on the farm of a grumpy old man. Of course, this rhyming tale begins as expected, but after the sun came out, she encountered the friendly and not-so-friendly creatures of the farm. Her farm advenure includes being splashed...

'You better not let your mom hear you saying that.' Translation: I'm too tired to discipline you for a small infraction like a cuss word, especially since you probably learned that word from me. Just don't try it in front of your mother or we'll both be sorry!" Cathy Hamilton's handy reference decodes...

Rule #1 in the parenting handbook: "Keep 'em off guard." Then along comes Cathy Hamilton (a forty-something mother of two, by the way) who blows the whole cover for motherdom. Okay, Mom will still have a trick or two up her sleeve, but Mom's the Word goes a long way toward giving the "other side" some...

Rule #1 in the parenting handbook: "Keep 'em off guard." Then along comes Cathy Hamilton (a forty-something mother of two, by the way) who blows the whole cover for fatherdom. Okay, Dad will still have a trick or two up his sleeve, but Dadgummit goes a long way toward giving the "other side" some...

Did you ever notice that every utterance that comes out of a child's mouth ends with either a question mark or an exclamation point?Since the dawn of time, the peanut gallery has been driving their parents crazy-occasionally entertaining them-with the same phrases uttered over and over and...

The Good Book for women to live by!The creator of Boyfriend-in-a-Box is back with a book that lays down the law, chapter and verse, for female relationships. Friendship between women is sacred. The Girlfriends' Bible is filled with hilarious scriptures that women can and do live by. What a...

The "Good Book" for women to live by!The creator of Boyfriend-in-a-Box is back with a book that lays down the law, chapter and verse, for female relationships. Friendship between women is sacred. The Girlfriends' Bible is filled with hilarious "scriptures" that women can and do live by. What...