Keep Your Skirt on: Kicky Columns With Legs

She's funny. She's fearless. She's Erma Bombeck in Carrie Bradshaw's stilettos.From swanky, seaside Santa Barbara, where carpools collide with couture, award-winning journalist Starshine Roshell turns a keen eye -— and dazzling wit -— to the puzzles and peeves of modern gal-hood.In this collection of smart, stylish stories from her nationally syndicated column, the Gen-X everymom mines for meaning in Pilates and politics, swing sets and strip clubs."An exacting and lively writer" -- Steve Martin, comedian and author of "Born Standing Up" and "Pure Drivel" "Her columns are so witty, wise and observant that I wish I wrote them." -- Jane Heller, Best-selling author of "Some Nerve" and "An Ex to Grind"

Named for a song in the 1960s musical "Hair," Starshine Roshell is a freelance journalist and syndicated columnist. The winner of a California Newspaper Publisher's Association award for best column writing, She resigned from the Santa Barbara News-Press in 2006 in protest of management's ethics.Her columns now appear in the Santa Barbara Independent, Ventura Star, Roanoke Times and on ParentClick web sites throughout the country. Starshine teaches journalism at Santa Barbara City College and writes for Westways, Santa Barbara Magazine, Destination Wine Country, Miller-McCune, 805 Living and Hybrid Mom. She wrote the children's books "Real-Life Royalty" and "A Day in the Life of a Fashion Designer" and was an author of the insider's guide "Hometown Santa Barbara."