2012 Bombeck Workshop faculty: Jim Higley
Jim Higley is the Bobblehead Dad — writer, motivational speaker, radio show host and cancer warrior. His favorite role, however, is dad to his three kids. Jim writes a parenting and family column, “Bobblehead Dad,” for Chicago Tribune’s TribLocal. He is also author of the award-winning Bobblehead Dad: 25 Life Lessons I Forgot I Knew and inaugural winner of the World’s Greatest Dad Challenge, sponsored by Man of the House. He’s online at BobbleheadDad and on Twitter at @jimhigley.
is the very model of a modern, middle-aged man — except that he’s now won four awards for humorous writing from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. He laughs at the absurdities of life in his humor column for his hometown paper, The Stamford Advocate. His column is syndicated by McClatchy-Tribune and has run in newspapers across the country and around the world. A collection of his columns appears in his book, Leave It to Boomer: A Look at Life, Love and Parenthood by the Very Model of the Modern Middle-Age Man.
Lisa Smith Molinari, an 18-year Navy spouse, mother of three and humor columnist, published an article, “I Want a Wife, Too” in the May issue of Military Spouse magazine. Check out her 
a “unique category with maybe two or three billion people.”
has released a book, A Real Mother: stumbling through motherhood. A columnist for the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, she quips her bio reads like a bad joke: “After working as a lifeguard, a Peace Corps volunteer, a middle school teacher, a switchboard operator and finally, an attorney (but don’t hold that against her), she is uniquely qualified to do absolutely nothing. That is why she writes.”
Lisa Tognola’s parody ad for a “Hunk of the Month” club (made of “medical grade plastic … as close as you’ll get to the real thing”) is included in the new Valentine’s Day anthology 