Patricia M Marx

Are you almost over the hill? Know someone who is?Getting older is no fun, but it sure can be funny. How do you know when you’re approaching the big 4-0? Here are a few clues:* Comb-overs are starting to make a certain kind of sense.* A kid you once babysat for is now your lawyer.* At your checkups,...

Poor Patty Jane! Accused of stuffing spinach in her pocket, the contrary heroine of Now Everybody Really Hates Me is stuck at the dinner table until she takes a bite of spinach. And swallows it. But Patty Jane has other plans, including getting her bossy baby-sitter sister, Joy, out of her life and ...

Meet Walter.And better yet, turn the pages and --meet his staff. The Gum Guy, who archives his chewed-up gum. His Homework Helper who does...well, you know. A complete Dream Team, to do his sleeping for him...And thats only the beginning!This laugh-out-loud picture book is a dream come true for any ...

While waiting in line for apple pie at a party, Imogene Gilfeather, a lingerie designer who does not understand the reason for romance, meets Wally Yez, a scientist whose business card says “An Answer for Everything.” Imogene is told that Wally is the perfect guy. (“Perfect,” she replies, “is not my...

The Five Mindfulness Trainings—protecting life, acting with generosity, behaving responsibly in sexual relationships, speaking and listening deeply and mindfully, and avoiding substance abuse—are the basic statement of ethics and morality in Buddhism. In For a Future to be Possible, Zen master and p...

Grandma Moses was old. Methuselah was old. Bob Hope was old. But boomers getting gray hairs and wrinkles? It can't be!Aging has been a normal human condition since the dawn of humankind, but for the boundless boomer bulge hitting its thirties, forties, and fifties, giving aging angst a whole new mea...

Former SNL writer and The New Yorker staffer Patty Marx employs the weapon she wields best--not that weapon; Patty believes in gun control. Instead, she uses her sharp-edged humor to tackle the most difficult facet of aging: the mind's decline. From forgetting her brother-in-law's name while he was ...