education, assholes and orgasmic gardening: Essays and Stories - Softcover

Over the top? 'Toilet Tales' answers that question. "Education, Assholes and Orgasmic Gardening: Essays and Stories" delivers both a dash of snark and a hint of tenderness. In her essays - written to evoke at least a smile, if not an audible laugh - the author reveals personality traits many would prefer to hide. * Loves - a thirty-year-old tank top... Neosporin... entire dandelion roots * Obsessions - toilet-paper feed... 100% cranberry juice... hair thickeners * Aversions - skinny jeans... incompetent educators... clueless parents The author's stories, taking a different turn, may leave a reader in stunned silence or with a tear in the eye. * To escape captivity, the unnamed female protagonist hunts for her shoes * Loving as a child, sara (no caps) becomes an eccentric, challenged adult * A woman sees the man pictured reading to his young daughter as her own father

A native of Crayola Crayons capital - Easton, Pennsylvania - Marilyn Jennerjohn sees herself as a sarcasm maven, a Redken products touter, and an inveterate weed extractor. After twenty-eight years as a high school educator, she retired in 2002 with no regrets. Currently she resides in a South Central PA setting conducive to dandelions.