Julie Sheehan He has placed before you fire and water; stretch out your hand for whichever you choose. Sirach 15:16 Can it be thrift when math necessitates you choose between power or a timer belt? A car can run on hope, but LIPA dealt its inky cut-off notice: thrift dictates more making-do. Thus should we celebrate your television-watching, latch-key kids, who’ve never had a latch, much less a gate, for saving you sitters. You took...

Julie Sheehan Girls, boost your confidence. The competition’s fierce. If you don’t glisten, You’ll never have a chance. My next pet peeve is leave the pre-Madonna Attitude at home! You wanna win, but not by stepping on another girl. It bares repeating: keep your social morays clean. Be curtious! Who cares Your sister’s fat and inappropriate? Freestyle rap’s a talent that beauty judges probably would hate. No holes barred, and...

Bar Book, Julie Sheehan’s third title, is a concoction of poetry and prose. Sheehan centers the book around the voice of an American barmaid; and what unfolds is a narrative of lost comfort and security--both emotional and financial. Life does not always go as one planned...