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When I was a little girl, I wanted to grow up to be a ballerina or a princess. Deep down, though, I knew what I really wanted to be. I wanted to be a mom. I was one of those kids who read everything I could get my hands on. At some point I must have finished all of my Nancy Drew books, and I started reading my mom's Erma Bombeck books. I remember one of Erma's stories. She wrote about two kinds of moms in the world: the kind who washes a measuring cup out with soap after she'd only used i ...

"When you travel, things go wrong." That's been my number one travel motto for years. It might not sound like uplifting advice, but embracing this reality helps you roll with and recover from the mini-disasters inevitable on every journey. For humor writers, there's an added bonus. When things go wrong, we get stories! Years ago, when I decided to pursue professional humor writing, I took a methodical, geeky approach to studying comedic structure. I read books. I took classes. In one wor ...