Perfectly Imperfect

Zusatztext Lee Woodruff is a modern day truth-teller. She is a laugh-out-loud funny! complex! contradictory! compassionate sister in the struggles and sweet successes of contemporary motherhood! sisterhood and wife-dom. An immediately relatable group of recollections and reflections on the often unfair! unexpected and unbelievably beautiful paths of a woman's life.Jamie Lee CurtisNora Ephron + Erma Bombeck = Lee Woodruff. This is the book for all the women in your lives!Liz Smith! syndicated columnistReading Lee Woodruff's warm! joyful! heartfelt essays on everything from sagging knees to facing a child's disability is a little like staying up all night dishing with your best friend. You'll nod in agreement! laugh out loud! shed a few tears! and come away with a renewed appreciation for the magic of everyday moments! which Woodruff celebrates with her characteristic humor and grace in Perfectly Imperfect. Ann Pleshette Murphy! parenting contributor for ABC's Good Morning America and author of The 7 Stages of Motherhood I want to snuggle up with a cup of tea and Lee Woodruff herself. Perfectly Imperfect is like having an old! dear friend who you haven't seen in awhile regale you with stories about life that you swear could be your own. This book will become my constant companion. Rita Wilson Informationen zum Autor Lee Woodruff is the life and family contributor for ABC's Good Morning America and a freelance writer. She is on the board of trustees of the Bob Woodruff Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides critical resources and support to our nation's injured service members, veterans, and their families, especially those affected by the signature hidden injuries of war: traumatic brain injury and combat stress. Lee Woodruff lives in Westchester County, New York, with her husband, ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff, and their four children. Klappentext On the heels of her acclaimed book In an Instant, the #1 New York Times bestseller she wrote with her husband, ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff, and with the same candor and charm, Lee Woodruff now chronicles her life as wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend. Woodruff's deeply personal and, at times, uproariously funny stories highlight such universal topics as family, marriage, friends, and how life never seems to go as planned. From raising teenagers ("Now with a boy and girl on the precipice of serious adolescence, the bathroom door is sealed tighter than a government nuclear testing ground") to how she copes with tragedy ("Swimming surrounds me in the velvet wet of a bluish green world where I can dive deep down and sob with no trace"), Perfectly Imperfect: A Life in Progress is the testimonial of a woman who embraces the chaos of her surroundings, discovers the splendor of life's flaws, and accepts that perfection is as impossible to achieve as a spotless kitchen floor. Chapter One Amusement Park Mecca Do you want a margarita? yelled the insipidly chirpy waitress in the Hawaiian shirt. We were in the Jimmy Buffettthemed restaurant at Universal Studios, Orlando, and she was trying to be heard over Come Monday, which was blaring from the speaker system. No, I said wearily. My feet throbbed, and, as the designated pack mule, I'd been lugging the twenty-pound backpack with the camera, extra batteries and chargers, water, fleeces, and enough snacks to outfit an Everest expedition. I'd been so distracted getting everyone else breakfast that morning that I hadn't had more than a few bites of the kids' cold toast. My blood sugar level was alarmingly low. I was ready to drink the ketchup right out of the crusty red bottle on the table. Really...? The waitress sounded genuinely surprised, almost disdainful. You sure you don't want a margarita? What I said was No thank you. What I really wanted to do was to gr...

“Lee Woodruff is a modern day truth-teller. She is a laugh-out-loud funny, complex, contradictory, compassionate sister in the struggles and sweet successes of contemporary motherhood, sisterhood and wife-dom. An immediately relatable group of recollections and reflections on the often unfair, unexpected and unbelievably beautiful paths of a woman’s life.”—Jamie Lee Curtis“Nora Ephron + Erma Bombeck = Lee Woodruff. This is the book for all the women in your lives!”—Liz Smith, syndicated columnist“Reading Lee Woodruff’s warm, joyful, heartfelt essays on everything from sagging knees to facing a child’s disability is a little like staying up all night dishing with your best friend. You’ll nod in agreement, laugh out loud, shed a few tears, and come away with a renewed appreciation for the magic of everyday moments, which Woodruff celebrates with her characteristic humor and grace in ****Perfectly Imperfect.**”—Ann Pleshette Murphy, parenting contributor for ABC’s Good Morning America and author of The 7 Stages of Motherhood“I want to snuggle up with a cup of tea and Lee Woodruff herself. Perfectly Imperfect is like having an old, dear friend who you haven’t seen in awhile regale you with stories about life that you swear could be your own.  This book will become my constant companion.” —Rita Wilson

Autorentext

Lee Woodruff is the life and family contributor for ABC’s Good Morning America and a freelance writer. She is on the board of trustees of the Bob Woodruff Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides critical resources and support to our nation’s injured service members, veterans, and their families, especially those affected by the signature hidden injuries of war: traumatic brain injury and combat stress. Lee Woodruff lives in Westchester County, New York, with her husband, ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff, and their four children.

Klappentext

On the heels of her acclaimed book In an Instant, the #1 New York Times bestseller she wrote with her husband, ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff, and with the same candor and charm, Lee Woodruff now chronicles her life as wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend. Woodruff's deeply personal and, at times, uproariously funny stories highlight such universal topics as family, marriage, friends, and how life never seems to go as planned. From raising teenagers ("Now with a boy and girl on the precipice of serious adolescence, the bathroom door is sealed tighter than a government nuclear testing ground") to how she copes with tragedy ("Swimming surrounds me in the velvet wet of a bluish green world where I can dive deep down and sob with no trace"), Perfectly Imperfect: A Life in Progress is the testimonial of a woman who embraces the chaos of her surroundings, discovers the splendor of life's flaws, and accepts that perfection is as impossible to achieve as a spotless kitchen floor.

Zusammenfassung
On the heels of her acclaimed book In an Instant, the #1 New York Times bestseller she wrote with her husband, ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff, and with the same candor and charm, Lee Woodruff now chronicles her life as wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend. Woodruff’s deeply personal and, at times, uproariously funny stories highlight such universal topics as family, marriage, friends, and how life never seems to go as planned. From raising teenagers (“Now with a boy and girl on the precipice of serious adolescence, the bathroom door is sealed tighter than a government nuclear testing ground”) to how she copes with tragedy (“Swimming surrounds me in the velvet wet of a bluish green world where I can dive deep down and sob with no trace”), Perfectly Imperfect: A Life in Progress is the testimonial of a woman who embraces the chaos of her surroundings, discovers the splendor of life’s flaws, and accepts that perfection is as impossible to achieve as a spotless kitchen floor.

Leseprobe
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