Everyday Naked: Sacred & Profane Morsels of Truth - Softcover

Mary Bartnikowski is an authentic suburban goddess who takes us on a water-slide ride through sex, soul, sock-matching and self-employment. Sizzling with warmth, wit and earthiness, this working wife and full-time mom serves up some pithy and inspiring exposes on marriage, midriff bulge, preteens, the perfect underwear, and meddlesome in-laws-it's all here-and it goes down like a martini mixed with metaphysics. She brings an unusual combination of spiritual panache and deadpan hilarity, to topics that range from the mystical to the mundane. A native New Yorker and naturalized Californian, Mary tells the unvarnished truth about telling the unvarnished truth-and then yanks the stuffing out of every sacred cow in sight. A couple of decades ago, this wild child of the 70s chose laughter as her religion and today holds up a fun-house mirror to the silly and serious reality of being a grown-up in the 90s. Everyday Naked will move you to laughter and to tears-sometimes o! n the same page.

"Along the lines of Virginia Woolf-but in an irreverent voice akin to that of Annie Lamott." -- Palo Alto Weekly, November 1998

"An Erma Bombeck for the '90s" -- San Francisco Chronicle, December 18, 1998

"Her motto is: living out loud and laughing is the prescription to life's monsoons. With such a delicious philosophy how do we dare pass up Everyday Naked? The cover photograph is worth the $12.95 just by itself." -- Palo Alto Daily, October 1998

"Raw emotion, a great read!" -- Library Journal, October 1998

"She writes much more frankly than Erma did about things like sex and flirting. It is candid and edgy." -- San Jose Mercury News, June 20, 1999