I Love You More Than Beer

And 99 Other Declarations of a Guy's Adoration

I Love You More than Beer . . . And 99 Other Declarations of a Guy’s Adoration is the sincere but manly way for a guy to express his love! And it’s in the shape of a beer can!   I Love You More than Beer. . . contains one hundred professions of true love,…

Over-the-Hillisms

What They Say and What They Really Mean

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, Hamilton hits her mark. That signature approach comes through clearly…

Menopause Means…

Never Having to Say You're Chilly

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, and insomnia. Women born…

Boomer Girl

Fighting Midlife One Crisis at a Time

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…

Who Else but a Father?

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 apart from the…

Who Else but a Mother?

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 third grade…

Kidisms

What They Say and What They Really Mean

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 over again. Kids are never neutral on…

Dadgummit

More Dadisms

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 boisterously…

Dadisms

What He Says and What He Really Means

‘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 Dad’s idiomatic…

Mom’s the Word

More Momisms

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"…

The Girlfriends’ Bible on Dating, Mating, and Other Matters of the Flesh

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 divine way to tell your…

Momisms

What She Says and What She Really Means

This Parent-to-English guidebook is a hilarious primer on understanding the true meanings of parental communication. Those who suspect that their mothers took closely guarded secret courses instructing them on “the significance of enigmatic utterances” won’t be surprised to learn there are indeed clandestine languages for Moms. And here is the book that deciphers them. Finally,…