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06
Keep It Together: 200+ tips, tricks, lists, and solutions for everyday life
Filed Under (Car Insurance) by admin on 06-12-2009
For anyone juggling a home, a career, and a social life, Keep It Together offers hundreds of how to’s – from organizing a closet to hosting a party; from stocking a pantry to buying stocks; and from finding a physician to healing a friendship. From the mundane household chore to unexpected life challenges, Keep it Together provides expert advice on simplifying everyday responsibilities.
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Science fiction aficionados, and many others, have likely seen Robert A. Heinlein’s admonition, that a human being should be able “to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. ” It has always made me feel a bit inadequate, since I could probably even take a shot at no more than 50% of those tasks. But this new book by Kirsten Lagatree offers hope! It is sort of an owner’s manual for the aspiring renaissance woman or man. It contains dozens of short, pithy, practical, and wonderfully written essays on everything from how to organize your home office, to how to work a room, to how to perfectly pack your suitcase for a quick business trip, to how to talk to a doctor who’s got one hand on the doorknob, to, indeed, how to comfort the dying. Buy one for yourself and buy a couple more for a few folks you love. Read bits and pieces of it during TV commercials, or while waiting for your clothes to dry, or before you go to bed. Keep it on your bookshelf and refer to it when you need it. And you will find yourself becoming a more competent, capable, complete human being. Specialization is for insects.
Want to know over 200 plus ways to put order in your life in a way even the most unorganized of us can understand? Kirsten Lagatree’s new book Keep It Together is for you. I found being told how to hail a taxi in New York invaluable info, how to fix a leaking pipe, how to comfort a friend who is ill. . . . Being enthusiastic about life and keeping a youthful attitude are what the book tells us so do read it to settle your life. We need to be reminded often that life is all about keeping it together.
You can scan bookshelves of advice books and still not get what this single volume offers. In this day and age we are all looking for a comprehensive, easy to use (and fun to digest!) source for. . . well, the stuff we might feel a bit silly about asking. After all, we’re adults. But, for example, how DO you find a therapist? Word of mouth isn’t the whole story. Grab this book to help make the best decision. This book is one you’ll also go to simply because there are gee-whiz items (like a good almanac. . . )—stuff you’ll share at neighborhood parties because you’ll be smarter. Ok, be able to SOUND smarter. I’m planning on this as a Christmas gift for some 20-somethings, but also to some boomers who still need help ‘keeping it together,’ but don’t know how to find the answers.