Author Archives: Terri Schlichenmeyer

Two heads are better than one.

Another body can make work lighter, both in mood and in task. A partner can support

you, encourage you, inspire you, and sympathize with you. You solve easier with another

mind on the problem.

Is there anything better in basketball? It’s sheer poetry, absolute magic, and your team

can’t do it enough – especially when it happens from the three-point line. In the new

book “Chasing Perfection” by Andy Glockner, you’ll see how science is trying to

ensure that it does, as much as possible.

Your neighbors said they’d keep an eye on your house for you this summer.

They’d get the mail in, and grab the newspaper while you were on vacation. They’d do

everything for you – and, as in the new book “The Parker Sisters” by Lucy Maddox,

you should be glad if they watch your children, too.

If the walls could talk, imagine what they’d say.

They’d reminisce about family meals, holidays, celebrations and romance, take sides in

arguments, and watch children grow.

You can’t remember what you came into the room for.

That happens with disturbing frequency. Forgetting your glasses, losing your keys, it

really bothers you because you’re not sure if it’s a normal part of aging or something

else.

You’d do almost anything for your best friend.

You’d take a bullet, take her in, or take her anywhere she needed to go. You keep her

kids and her confidences. And, as in the new novel, “Best Friends Forever” by

Kimberla Lawson Roby, she’d do the same for you. Probably.

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire seem so cozy.

Your family is filled with people to whom you look up.

There’s Grandpa, who served in the war. Grandma, who raised many children with little

money. Your uncle, another veteran overseas; and both your parents, who keep you fed

and safe. You look up to all of them but imagine how high you’d have to look if they

were on horseback, and then read “Buffalo Soldiers: Heroes of the American West” by

Brynn Baker.

You woke up this morning with a craving. So is breakfast time too early to think about dinner? Is it bad to want to sneak home for
lunch, just to make your favorite comfort food? No, because nothing else tastes good when you’re hankering for something specific.

You have to tell somebody.

There’s a secret inside you, one you’ve been keeping far too long and you’re about to

burst. You need to talk about it. You need some advice, some perspective. As in the new

novel “Naughtier than Nice” by Eric Jerome Dickey, if you don’t talk about this issue

soon, it could be the death of you.