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Friday July 27, 2018

A mashup of Ellen Degeneres and Erma Bombeck

Miss Nackawic Meets Midlife has been described as "a mashup of Ellen Degeneres and Erma Bombeck" as it offers "a slow roast of everyday life as seen through a would-be pageant winner who dreams of bigger things." Canadian author Colleen Landry is a humor writer whose articles have appeared in Canadian Living, The Globe and Mail and The Irish Times. She is also one of the co-authors of Follow the Goose Butt, Camelia Airheart! and Take off to Tantramar. Her humor blog One Hot-Flashin' Mama focuses on menopause and family life in the Maritimes. Her book is available on Amazon and here.

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Bonjour, French doors

According to an old saying, which I just made up, when one door closes, your finger will get caught in it. That's what happened to me recently, which is why I became unhinged. The door didn't, but it did lose its weatherstripping, so my wife, Sue, and I went to a home improvement store to buy not one but two (because they come in pairs) French doors. The old doors, which led from the family room to the backyard patio, wore out because they were constantly being opened and closed for ourse ...

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. He dedicates the book to his ...

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