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Life Is A Four Letter Word

by Nan Boylan Hanstein

101 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #04-1066; ISBN 1-4120-3239-3; US$14.95, C$19.00, EUR12.35, £8.56

Humorous romp through life's everyday happenings. A fun ride through the eyes of a mother just trying to do her job well.

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About the Book      About the Author      Table of Contents & Excerpts      Catalogue Information

About the Book

Life Is A Four Letter Word can best be described as a situational humor book. In relating stories of things that happened within my family, I would often hear, "You should write that down." So I did. The book is comprised of situations that arise in everyday life, and how hilarious they can be. Of course the situations in this book have happened to my family and me, but they are not foreign to most people.

Have you ever been stuck in a car dealership for hours by a pushy salesman who won't let you get away? Have you ever been pulled over by a cop and thought you were going up the river? Have you ever gone to Atlantic City and come home broke? have you ever been stuck on the phone for hours with a telemarketer trying to get your opinion about something ridiculous? Have your children ever played a sport, had Show and Tell in school, or wouldn't get up in the morning? Me too. That is what this book is about. All those situations that could drive you to the nut house, if you didn't just take a step back, look at them, and laugh.

I firmly believe the world, as a whole, does not laugh enough. We hardly ever take the time to look at a situation in a different way and find the humor. To that end, I am trying to do my part to point it out. We live in a crazy, scary, mixed-up world. We are trying to raise a generation of decent human beings in that crazy, scary, mixed-up world. If we are in a bad mood all t
ime over the curves life throws us, how can we possibly do that? However, if we can find a reason to laugh, a reason to hope, then we can hopefully teach our children to do the same.

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About the Author

Hi, I am Nan Hanstein. I am a lifetime resident of New Jersey. I was born in Cinnaminson, New Jersey in 1959. I am 100% Irish Catholic (almost the very definition of a leprechaun). I attended St. Charles Borromeo grade school in Cinnaminson, NJ and graduated from Holy Cross High School in Delran, New Jersey in 1977.

In 1985 I married my husband Bob, to whom I am still m arried. I became a mother for the first time in January of 1987 and four more times after that. I have five wonderful children. I have worked as a medical transcriptionist since 1991. I am a work-at-home mom thereby adding to my occupation list maid, chief cook and bottle washer, taxi driver, referee, counselor, and all the other "jobs" moms are responsible for. My children are my life. I grew up in a home filled with love and laughter and only hope to be able to give my children the same.

As far as hobbies are concerned, if laundry doesn't count as a hobby, then I guess my other hobby is bowling. I spend most of my days getting kids off to school, making lunches, kissing boo-boos, making sure everybody has clean clothes and that they are all where they are supposed to be at any given time. There isn't much time left for anything else, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

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Table of Contents & Excerpts

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Catalogue Information

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