ADVENTURES OF A HOMEBODY by Karen Parker
	A joyful, funny book by a celebrant of life. Come share the experience with Karen as she observes, comments upon and enthusiastically participates in 'adventures' in her own backyard and around the world.
	"Deceptively simple", "journalistic counselling", "filled with laughter - and tears," are what people have said about "Homebody."

I blame the entire episode on having only sons, no daughters. A daughter would surely have said, "Oh, Mom, don't do that. A friend of mine did it and it was a disaster." Well, the fact of the matter is - I dyed my eyebrows... (Funny, I Happened to Be There)

The rain had stopped and a line of clouds so perfectly hung on the horizon they looked as if someone had pegged them out to dry. Tom McCormick was not a fancifal man - besides, the rain had spoiled his barbeque - but he noticed the clouds and they reminded him of the cotton pieces stuffed into the top of pill bottles. A swallow inked its way across his line of vision.... (On Nature...And Otherwise)

We, all of us, experience statements, or people, or situations which make us resolve to chuck the whole affair and go live the life of a hermit. One of the major reasons I sometime decide to look into cave real estate is our preoccupation in the Western world with children and food. How to get the former to eat the latter. (And Always, Children)

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