{"product_id":"2940157904371","title":"Doing It Sam's Way","description":"This book is written by a friend of mine and could have just as easily been called, \"The Diary of a Spanked Housewife.\" Joanna Miller (a pseudonym, naturally,) has kept a charming five- year diary of her adventures as she and her husband, Sam, meander down the new and often confusing path of Domestic Discipline, trying to deal with a familiar series of problems and questions. Sometimes touching and often hilarious, Jo's Diary follows the daily trials and growing insight of a loving, devoted couple sometimes overwhelmed by three badly behaved kids, speeding tickets, a bald, asthmatic hamster, vacations from hell, annoying in-laws, and exploding turkeys.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Being spanked,\" Jo observes in a philosophical moment, \"can be a remarkably funny experience, looked at in the proper light, and from an adequate distance--a lot like thirty-eight unmedicated hours in hard labor.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA once successful working artist, now a frustrated soccer-mom working her way inexorably down the ladder of success, Jo agrees, with Sam's help, to try to rein in her tempestuous temper, her exhaustive vocabulary of Anglo-Saxon expletives, and her worst habit--smoking. \"On good days, \" as Jo describes her smoking habit, \"I was like a burning junkyard full of smoldering truck tires.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Sam comes up with the idea of giving Domestic Discipline a try, Jo agrees (although Jo says \"agreed\" is probably too generous a word. She prefers \"hoodwinked.\") Once begun, Jo finds that \"Doing It Sam's Way \" is rewarding, (in the end), but a little more complicated, and a lot harder on her own rear end than she had been led to believe.","brand":"Blushing Books Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47075409330416,"sku":"2940157904371","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940157904371_p0.jpg?v=1764110817","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940157904371","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}