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Leslie Marinelli is editor-in-chief of In The Powder Room, an online global community for women. Her new book, with 38 other women bloggers, is a humorous anthology of original short stories, You Have Lipstick on Your Teeth: And Other Things You'll Only Hear from Your Friends In The Powder Room. She is the creative force behind the riotous blog, The Bearded Iris: A Recalcitrant Wife and Mother Tells All. Leslie was named a BlogHer Humor Voice of the Year in 2013 and 2012, and a Babble Top ...

Another Erma Bombeck conference has ended. I'll come home and friends will ask, so how was it? I'll answer: Great, I loved it! They will raise an eyebrow and wonder why I'm so uncharacteristically enthusiastic. Then they will smile at me the way people do when an older person indulges in reminiscences. "I'm glad," they'll say, and quickly move on, lest I start talking about my love for pressed linens and starched curtains. No! If you think the Erma Conference is quaint, you are wrong. Yes ...