Naked, Drunk and Writing is a funny, anecdotal and highly useful guide to writing personal essays and memoirs by Adair Lara, a popular columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle for 12 years.

Naked, Drunk, and Writing

Adair Lara

Self-Help

Scottwall Associates,Publishers

Inevitably, Morgan's misbehaviour revives memories of her own headstrong adolescence, while her father's presence makes agonisingly real for her the consequences of giving up. Paradoxically, he also becomes the source of her best advice.

Hold ME Close, Let ME Go: A Mother, a Daughter, and an Adolescence Survived

Broadway Books

Excellent book in excellent condition.

Normal Is Just a Setting on the Dryer

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Barnes&Noble

We could all use some advice now and then. When the self-help books just aren't helping, it's time to call in the experts: real people. San Francisco Chronicle columnist Adair Lara polled her readers for life lessons learned through experience, receiving thousands of heartfelt and irreverent responses. The best are compiled here in over 200 bits of priceless counsel. With witty illustrations by Roxanna Bikadoroff, this handy little volume is filled with humor, unconventional insights, and the kind of common wisdom that will always bear repeating.

Normal Is Just a Setting On the Dryer: And Other Lessons from the Real, Real World

Roxanna Bikadoroff (illustrator)

Chronicle Books+

This delightful guide gives new grandmas clear direction on how to navigate foreign territory. Celebrated columnist Adair Lara advises on how to choose a decent name (Oopsie? Boopsie?). She outlines how to give advice without getting a Dr. Sears guide chucked at the head. She offers wise counsel on how to stay on the parents' good side (hint: don't say anything, ever). Hilarious in its blunt truisms, The Granny Diaries steers around the shoals of grandma sentimentality. And yet, having fallen madly in love with her own grandchildren, Adair affirms that the years after the big G truly are golden.

The Granny Diaries: An Insider's Guide for New Grandmothers

Health, Fitness & Dieting

The Best of Adair Lara: Prize Winning Columns from the San Francisco Chronicle

Scottwall Assoc

Hanging Out the Wash, by San Francisco Chronicle columnist Adair Lara, celebrates the many ways people find peace in life's small, cherished moments. The title comes from a column Adair Lara wrote describing how much her mother treasured the quiet time spent hanging the family's laundry on a clothesline, refusing a dryer even when she could afford one. This collection reveals and celebrates the sidelines of life people cherish but sometimes overlook - writing letters in longhand, re-reading a favorite novel, washing the dishes by hand, and driving the scenic route to their destination. "Lovely, funny, sad, true, and inspiring." Anne Lamott

Hanging Out the Wash

MJF_Books

Les Plaisirs de l'Ame

MODUS VIVENDI

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