Exploring the challenges women face from marriage to menopause, the narrative highlights the emotional and physical obstacles encountered along the way. With a blend of hope and humor, it offers encouragement and insights, making the journey feel less daunting and more relatable.
Combining humor with inspiration, this collection showcases Barbara Johnson's unique wit and wisdom, offering a delightful mix of jokes, memorable one-liners, amusing stories, and entertaining cartoons. Addressing themes like men, parenting, and aging, it serves as an uplifting resource for those seeking comfort and laughter. As a beloved author and speaker, Johnson's work resonates with women in need of hope, making this a valuable addition to any library.
Exploring themes of resilience and joy, the author offers a heartfelt collection of humor and inspiration drawn from her own life experiences and correspondence with readers. This candid reflection combines uplifting anecdotes and insights, providing comfort and encouragement amidst life's challenges. Fans of her work will find a familiar blend of wit and wisdom, making it a relatable and uplifting read.
Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, and Sylvia Plath make up the odd trio on which this book is based. It is in the surprising and revealing links between them--links pertaining to troublesome mothers, elusive foreign languages, and professional disappointments--that Barbara Johnson maps the coordinates of her larger claims about the ideal of oneness in every area of life, and about the damage done by this ideal.The existence of sexual difference precludes an original or ultimate "one" who would represent all of mankind; the plurality of languages makes it impossible to think that one doesn't live in translation; and the plurality of the sexes means that every human being came from a woman's body, and some will reproduce this feat, while others won't. In her most personal and deeply considered book about difference, Johnson Is the mother the guardian of a oneness we have never had? The relations that link mothers, bodies, words, and laws serve as the guiding puzzles as she searches for an answer.
Through outrageous humor and insightful anecdotes, Barbara Johnson offers a fresh perspective on life's challenges, encouraging readers to find a heavenly outlook amid trials. She provides women with a metaphorical telescope to help them navigate and understand their often difficult circumstances, blending inspiration with relatable real-life examples.
Between dusk and dark lies another world.The playful quartet that penned the acclaimed Once Upon A Dyke are dimming the lights for journeys into worlds of breathless seduction.Haunted castles and lost ingénues, shadows hungry for life, immortal beings of power claiming their captive souls... everything is possible when the sun goes down.Curl up for seductive, skin-tingling novellas, perfect for bed time. Don't worry... the flutter at the window is only the curtain in the breeze...Barbara Johnson, Karin Kallmaker, Therese Szymanski and Julia Watts join forces again for the third in their critically-acclaimed New Exploits series, creating unique stories with lesbian erotica, humor and adventure. The result is what Curve Magazine called "a true rarity."
Shows samples of antique fabrics and fashion plates from an eighteenth century English woman's journal, and discusses the social background of the period.
Focusing on the journey of aging, the book offers a blend of humor and wisdom, guiding readers through the joys and challenges of growing older. Barbara Johnson, a conference speaker, shares insights on embracing the present while also preparing for a hopeful future in heaven, making it an uplifting read for those navigating life's later stages.
Focusing on humor as a coping mechanism, this collection from Barbara Johnson offers readers a lighthearted approach to facing life's challenges. Known for her bestselling works, Johnson delivers her funniest insights yet, encouraging laughter even in tough times. Accompanied by a nationwide radio special, this book promises to uplift and entertain, making it a delightful read for anyone seeking joy amid difficulties.