Recent content by Marcy Sheiner

OMG, I totally LOVED Demon Copperhead. Read it twice! Even went back and read David Copperfield again just to see how cleverly she wrote it. I was bored by Copperfield, actually.

One doctor told me to take Benadryl to get to sleep. Another told me it can cause Alzheimers.

I thought diazepam was valium. I used to take them when necessary, and I've also taken xanax for sleep.

My son, the one I keep talking about, acts very crazy in airports, to the point where once he got so insane when they wouldn't let him take cooked food on the plane, they would not. let us. on the plane. at all. And they even put handcuffs on him! But TG the next day they let us fly home. I...

Heard this on the news, very upsetting, but par for the course these days.

I have a book by Doris Lessing, my favorite author, signed by her.

@Palladin1950, Did you work at the Treasury??

What did you do for work? Something for tv?

@Pepper, I haven't read him bc his other books seem so grim. Harlem Shuffle might be ok for me. I'm reading an old Philip Roth, Letting Go. Masterful.

I was furious all the years of raising my neurologically impaired son. People said such terrible things to me; for instance, a friend called me in the hospital--she said she'd heard there was a problem with my newborn baby. I told her what it was and she said, "Thank God, at least it's not a...

Now my go-to is a smoothie and scone, or toast with butter or cream cheese.

I started Season 2 of Nine Perfect Strangers. I liked Season 1 mostly for Nicole Kidman.

And I say, it's about time!

@seadoug Agree also on White Lotus. Loved the first 2, hated #3. Parker Posey, IMO, was the best thing about that one.

Congratulations on talking your way out of rape.