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February 12, 2024
The World's Greatest Inventions
A couple of days ago, I retrieved one (of about a hundred) of our family doglets’ chew bones from the seemingly unreachable chasm under my youngest and quietest daughter’s bed using an ingenious invention of my own making—namely a straightened-out wire clothes hanger.
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February 11, 2024
Leave It to Geezer
The day after I turned 70, I got an email urging me to buy burial insurance.
February 08, 2024
The Fun of Faxing
Rose King was a freelance writer who loved her fax machine. It was so easy to send a print copy of her writing to a publisher as soon as she completed writing it.
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February 06, 2024
Erma's Got Talent, Season Three
A dozen randomly selected comics will perform at Erma's Got Talent on Feb. 28. Join us for this night of free laughs!
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February 04, 2024
Driving Course Is an Auto Motive
My wife thinks I drive too fast. Our younger daughter thinks I drive too slow. Since I am neither a white-knuckled NASCAR wannabe nor a little old man who tootles along in the passing lane with his left blinker on, this means I drive just right.
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February 02, 2024
Tell Your Story
The two 2024 recipients of the DC Stanfa Memorial Writers' Award shared powerful personal stories in their applications — and hope participation in the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop will guide them on their writing journey.
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February 01, 2024
Humor Writer of the Month: Jane Condon
The Associated Press has dubbed Jane Condon “an uppercrust Roseanne,” and The New York Times says, “Condon had the audience cackling, guffawing and in hysterics as she sliced through marriage, husband, kids, politics and other topics.” She's our Humor Writer of the Month for February.
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January 30, 2024
When Memory Flails
Now that my age has surpassed the mid-century mark and I’m more ancient than virtually all professional athletes, everyone in my department at work, and even my pastor at church, I’ve noticed that the old memory is not what it used to…. Wait. What was I writing about again?
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January 28, 2024
Calendar Guy
Inspired by pop legend Neil Sedaka, who is most famous for his 1960 hit song “Calendar Girl,” I love, I love, I love to be a calendar guy, each and every day of the year. And since it’s 2024 already, this can mean only one thing for a geezer like me: Times flies when you’re incoherent.
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January 27, 2024
Experience Erma — For Free
The University of Dayton’s popular Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop is sold out, but writers and Erma aficionados can participate in a number of free events leading up to the April 4-6 workshop.
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