Well, I did it again.
Doesn’t every guy? I answered the door and frightened the FED-EX man out of his skin. Over the years, I’ve sent many a stranger at my door howling away in terror. Duh, I keep forgetting that I’ve applied my beard dye, turning my face into a very scary sight.
Realizing that I’m forever cursed to be a scatterbrain, I can’t blame a memory malfunction. For example, as a movie buff, […]
Essays and News
Dressed down
I bought a dress online, a long black summer dress that I thought would make me look earthy and graceful.
Dresses are foreign to me but I keep trying, like all the years I kept going back to Spanish classes thinking this next time I would become completely bilingual. Buenos dias!
The dress, so chic and classy in the photo, could double as an emergency tent. It’s that voluminous and heavy. Maybe it’s water repellent, […]
New format, same laughs
Laugh Out Loud: 40 Women Humorists Celebrate Then and Now…Before We Forget, a nostalgic, humorous look at life through the ages, is now available as an ebook.
Published by Allia Zobel Nolan in association with the University of Dayton’s Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop, the book was launched at the spring workshop, with half of the essayists in attendance for a book signing. The Kindle version is just $3.99, about the cost of a cappuccino. […]
Humor Writer of the Month: Curtis Honeycutt
“I like to think of quotation marks as T. rex fingers, demarcating the words inside as special — kind of like the lucky underwear you only wear when you want to have an exceptionally awesome day.”
Curtis Honeycutt makes grammar fun in his nationally syndicated column, “Grammar Guy,” which appears weekly in more than 100 newspapers.
His amusing musings about gender-inclusive pronouns, prepositions at the end of sentences and the dreaded autocorrect function on IPhones garnered third place in the 2018 column contest sponsored by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists for print publications over 50,000. […]
Flush with misadventure
Erma Bombeck offered humorous travel tips in her book, When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It’s Time to Go Home.
Not to be outdone, her son, Andy, has turned his first set of travel journals into a self-published book, Traveler’s Diarrhea, illustrated with 200 candid photos.
“I’m not a real writer. A real writer I am not,” the retired school teacher writes in an author’s note in the book, which chronicles his adventures and misadventures around the globe. […]
