Local Mom Pens a Self-Laugh Guide to Life

This Brick Township woman has accumulated a bunch of stories on the everyday challenges many of us face...and she's injected humor into them.

Shell McCusker has been married almost 25 years. She has two teenagers and both an undergraduate and graduate degree from Monmouth University. Now she has written a book that she hopes will give you a laugh...perhaps at her expense! Or maybe it'll help you learn to laugh at yourself instead of crying at life's ridiculous moments.

Shell says she really did have fun putting this book together so that people (mostly women) would get a giggle out of reading it when they relate to some of her funny life stories.

Some of the fun stories in her book include these chapter titles: "D is for Dieting, Despair, and Denial", "Someone Opened the Window and My Dignity Flew Out", "Are You Sure You Want to Marry Me?", and "Let's Get the Man out of Manicure".

The name of her self-published book is "You Have to Laugh or You'll Cry" and it's available on Amazon and Kindle.

Shell dreamed of writing and publishing her own stories since she was a little girl. Check out her blog by CLICKING HERE.

Shell moved to NJ when she was ten and grew up in Aberdeen. She has lived in Brick for the past 15 years. She loves the Jersey Shore and, like many of us, has a dream of buying a house across from the ocean in Spring Lake ...once she wins the lottery or sells 18 million books : )

She continues to write in her free time and has four other books under way...but still has to hold down that full time day job which makes writing time a challenge.

Here's to living your dreams, Shell!