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(This piece originally ran in the Stamford Advocate on Sept. 25, 2014. Reposted by permission of Jerry Zezima.) The late, great humorist Erma Bombeck once said, "Housework, if you do it right, can kill you." Since I am still alive, thanks to my wife, Sue, who does most of the housework in our house, I guess I am not doing it right. This does not come as a surprise to either me or Sue because of a startling statistic I read in the latest edition of the Old Farmer's Almanac, which states: " ...

Anna Lefler is a humorist, comedy writer, EBWW faculty member and author of two books, Preschooled and The Chicktionary: From A-Line to Z-Snap, The Words Every Woman Should Know. She describes her new novel, Preschooled, as "a comic love letter to my children's nursery school years in Santa Monica." Laraine Newman, an original cast member of "Saturday Night Live," calls it "so goddam funny it made me want to ditch my life so I could read it." A portion of the proceeds from the book will b ...