As a man who has always had a lot of hang-ups about the telephone, especially since the only people who want to talk with me are scammers and telemarketers, I wouldn’t be sorry to know that Alexander Graham Bell is spending eternity being bombarded with robocalls.
It used to be that all you needed to know about the telephone was that you said “hello” when you picked it up and “goodbye” when you put it down. […]
Essays and News
How a pair of mannequin legs got my son through his freshman year of college
“We couldn’t ignore their siren song!” my son insisted.
My husband sheepishly lowered his head. “You carried these through the mall, in public?!” I was aghast observing the ghostly white, curvy, naked form, absent of any gender identification, complete with attached high-heeled boots.
“Two of my students saw us and took pictures,” my spouse continued. “They laughed at me,” he ended in a whisper. My son snorted as he draped leftover Christmas lights from the slender calves to the fork in the legs. […]
A hotel room along the Dayton Riviera
“I haven’t slept in 12 years,” one beleaguered writer started her application.
And this realization from another hopeful writer, “You had me at room service.”
The University of Dayton’s Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop is once again offering two emerging humor writers the opportunity to compete for an all-expenses-paid trip to Dayton, Ohio, where the winners will be “robed” in plush, custom-embroidered bathrobes and given free registration to the April 2-4, 2020, workshop.
But there’s more. […]
Humor Writer of the Month: Joanne Brokaw
Improvisor and award-winning writer Joanne Brokaw spends her days dreaming of things she’d like to do but probably never will — like swimming with dolphins, cleaning the attic and someday overcoming the trauma of elementary school picture day. When she’s not writing, performing or staring at the computer screen listening to the deadline clock tick, she’s leading improv workshops to help people of all ages push past fear, embrace creativity and learn to play again. […]
A serious case of the boyfriends
My family is currently experiencing an outbreak of a condition most parents dread. No, I don’t mean the 24-hour stomach bug–although it sometimes lasts about as long and has similarly repulsive symptoms. Instead, my two older daughters have come down with a serious case of the boyfriends.
I knew it would happen eventually, but I was hoping it would be closer to when I reach the latter stages of decomposition. It seems like yesterday when I was the only male of any species that my three daughters were interested in, […]
