Former, award-winning newspaper writer Kristen Cook tackled everyday topics (confiscating her daughter's cell phone but then forgetting where she hid it, needing reading glasses but refusing to admit it) in a regular column. Her humorous musings led readers to call her "Tucson's Erma Bombeck." Now she brings her modern-day take of finding the ha-ha in the humdrum to this collection of essays about life's little moments that really aren't that little. It's a book for readers with 21st century attention spans and precious little free time but who could always use a laugh—especially at Cook's expense, like the time Bobby Flay tried to poison her or her deep hatred of throw-pillow shopping or that almost, kinda-sorta, near-death experience that actually made the carpool schedule flash before her eyes.