Audacious Adventures of Zazoo Plazz (eBook)

Part-Time Superhero, Full-Time Mom

Leslie Bilodeau Placzek (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
258 Seiten
Distributed By Ingram Spark (Verlag)
978-1-0878-6516-4 (ISBN)

Infos

As an only child growing up in the 1970s, Leslie Bilodeau Placzek (aka ';Zazoo Plazz') read, wrote, and wondered about many things: French words (from her ';Bilodeau' French heritage); TV commercials (and all things pop culture); astrology; yoga; baked beans; what the neighbors were up to; where our souls go when we die; and how to improve upon her mothers cleaning techniques. Motivated by learning and serving others, Leslie hops from one inflated expectation to the next on her journey to fully embody and express Zazoo Plazz, a twenty-first-century career woman, wife and mother. She is a ';Part-Time Superhero, Full-Time Mom' - and her stories honor the superhero in all women. This collection of vignettes is a playful romp through the quirky imagination of a Late-Blooming Post-Boomer as she enters midlife - and finally learns how to share her discoveries with the world, become her own superhero, tame her big 80s hair, and find an outfit appropriate for running a household, a business, and a half marathon. But will her canine sidekick, DD (aka Bebe - the Divine Diva dog), steal the scene---and the last slice of pizza--and bring Zazoo back down to earth?

Inhalt

Dedication ................................................................... 7 

Acknowledgements ..................................................... 9 

Prologue .................................................................... 15 

A Day in the Life of Zazoo Plazz, Part-time Superhero,  Full-time Mom 

Preface ...................................................................... 21 

Hey, What’s So Funny? ............................................. 25

Nobody Puts Leslie in a Crib ...................................... 29

Bright Light ............................................................... 33

Part-Time Private Eye ................................................ 37

Pardon My French ..................................................... 43

Going With the Flow ................................................. 49

Don’t Eat the Toothpicks! ......................................... 55

Part-time Passion for Fashion ................................... 59

Kitchen Explorations ................................................. 67

As I Sew, So Shall I Weep ........................................... 71

It Just Makes Scents .................................................. 75

Zazoo’s Pen Plazz ...................................................... 81

Next Life Savings and Loan ....................................... 85

Perplexed Planetary Pupil ......................................... 91

Hair Apparent ........................................................... 97

Great (Mrs.) Scott! .................................................. 103

Nerves of ‘Steele’ .................................................... 107 

Schools of Swimming (S.O.S.) .................................. 113 

I Love It in the Yoga Zone:  

Wherever I Lay My Mat is My Om........................... 117

The Stride Hyper of Smellingdung ........................... 123

(Not So) Hot to Trot ................................................. 127

Miss Merry Moonwalk ............................................ 137

Focus on Your Calling .............................................. 145

Cleaning Troubles, Oils and Grumbles .................... 151

The Lollipop Ladies .................................................. 157

Three in the Afternoon ............................................ 163

Full of Beans ............................................................ 167

The Juggler .............................................................. 171

Inside Information ................................................... 177

Bumpers and the Blarney Stone .............................. 181

Fair Opal Starstamp ................................................ 189

Welcome to Room 125 ............................................ 197

Settle Down, Sally .................................................... 205

Uncle Mabel Anger.................................................. 215

Leo Joseph and the Eight-Sided Table ..................... 221

Zazoo Plazz, Zealous Performer .............................. 231

The Banjo Nose Best................................................ 239

The Aquarian Centenarian ...................................... 245 

Epilogue .................................................................... 251 

Doggie Drama--and Dharma 

Endnotes .................................................................. 255 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.2.2020
• Illustrationen: Robin Tatlow Lord
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Humor / Satire
• Schlagworte: Astrology • Conduct of life • dog ownership • French Canadian ancestry • Inspirational Humor • marriage • Motherhood • New England • personal memoir • Running • Satire • Working Mothers • Yoga
• ISBN-10: 1-0878-6516-6 / 1087865166
• ISBN-13: 978-1-0878-6516-4 / 9781087865164