Bubbly on Your Budget by Marjorie Hillis

Check out this little gem about making do with less, first published in 1937; still appropriate for our times.

[Category: Secular Fiction]

For every mother who has been too busy. For every woman who has attempted to do it all.

Busy working mom, Sarah Nickerson, only looked away for a second. The subsequent crash after checking her cell phone shakes up her priorities, her perceptions and her life. A brain injury, known as left neglect, leaves her unable to see or process information on the left side of a book, a room or her computer. Her vision is fine, but her brain is not.

The author, who holds a PhD in neuroscience from Harvard University, surprises and delights by combining masterful knowledge with extremely readable and likable characters. Every mother can relate to Sarah on some level. Her constant feelings of being pulled in every direction and her drive to leave a mark, to be somebody, are written about with clarity and sympathy.

Left Neglected will make you rethink your priorities. It will cause you to cherish life this evening. It will help you reevaluate everything you’ve always thought is important. It will definitely make you resolve not to use your cell phone in the car.