Book excerpt: "If you're a mother yourself, you'll need no persuading. But you'll still find Mary Ann Fitzmorris a--well, let's say, a special case. While failing to get the kids to school on time, losing track of the family's menagerie of pets, trying to figure out what to do about piles of clothes whose origins, destinations, and current status were unknown, and a thousand other unfinished agenda items, what did she do? She sat down and began writing a weekly newspaper column about it all"--P. [4] of cover.