About the Author:
Though she has written no best-sellers, earned no mega-bucks, won no literary awards, Clarke does write letters to shut-ins every week of the year, as well as almost-monthly newsletters for her Red Hat chapter. The author recently celebrated 25 years of marriage to a man who makes her laugh even when she's got her "knickers in a twist." Of course she is still a mother, still a grandmother, and still Mother Tough.
Review:
The Warmth, wit and wisdom of Judith Clarke's writing, so much in evidence in Mother Tough Wrote the Book, is visible once again in her new collection of "momoirs," That's All She Wrote. Brew yourself a cup of tea, sit down, prop your feet up and open the pages of this new book. You'll feel like you are listening to an old friend. A funny one. Clarke really has a knack for capturing the scenes and dialogue of a family of unique people who share good times and bad, tears and fears, but, most of all, life and laughter. --Faith Andrews Bedford, author of Barefoot Summers: Reflections on Home, Family and Simple Pleasures
Judith Clarke is Erma Bombeck meets Poor Richard. Reading Clarke's easygoing essays is like sitting at the kitchen table with an old friend, sharing a cup of coffee and a girlish giggle...Only those of us who have experienced the horror of putting a rinse on our gray hair that leaves us with a head the color of rotting beets can truly appreciate Clarke's [new] book. Those of us who are at our best in ratty bathrobes, in garden soil, in red hats and purple dresses will identify. In the book's afterword, Clarke says she has "written everything Mother Tough wanted to say." She turned 68 in April...and she will tell you one more thing: "It just gets better." --Donna Alvis-Banks, The Roanoke Times
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