All Stressed Up and No Place To Go [Paperback]

Lori Borgman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 25, 2005

Laughter and hope make the best defense against stress. Here, Lori Borgman takes on life's daily pressures with her trademark homespun humor. There's plenty here to make a woman's eyelids twitch: anxiety about love handles; teaching a kid to drive a stick shift; the hormonal roller coaster ; and the challenge of being married to a guy who claims women live longer than men because man years are tougher on the body. All Stressed Up and No Place To Go offers up an arsenal of tension-busting laughs, plus an uplifting message about friendship, family, and faith.

Editorial Reviews

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Borgman is witty and has a playful imagination --Kirkus Reviews

Borgman will make parents laugh out loud or bring tears to their eyes . . . --Publisher's Weekly

From the Publisher

In ALL STRESSED UP AND NO PLACE TO GO, Everywoman Lori reflects on the familiar tensions—both trivial and more serious—that readers will recognize in their own lives: • anxiety about love handles, too much tummy, and corduroy pants that make a loud swishing sound when she walks • teaching her son to drive a stick shift • the hormonal roller coaster ride of life past forty • the challenge of being married to a guy who claims women live longer than men because "man years" are tougher on the body and much more.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Emmis Books; First edition (April 25, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1578602149
• ISBN-13: 978-1578602148
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #761,856 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars You Gotta be 40+, Married with Kids, Then You'll Understand, May 31, 2005

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John Matlock "Gunny" (Winnemucca, NV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All Stressed Up and No Place To Go (Paperback)

Lori Borgman writes a column on parenting and family life that is distributed to newspapers all over the country. She even makes getting a traffic ticket funny (Chapter 17). And there's getting the kids to take a bath, and then getting them out of the bathroom (Chapter 7). There's the hormonal roller coaster ride of a female past forty (More than one chapter).

This book is a series of what I suppose were newspaper columns (we don't get them here so I can't be sure). There is little of earth shattering importance here, just enough to make you chuckle a bit and make life better than it was.

Perhaps my favorite was her learning how to pray -- she was teaching her teenage son how to drive a pickup truck with a manual transmission. Oh how I remember those days.

If you're under forty something, if you haven't been married, if you don't have any kids -- you simply won't understand. But for the rest of us, very entertaining reading. She understands our life.