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Erma Bombeck | Writers´ Workshop

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The workshop for humor writing, human interest writing, networking and getting published. Chloe and Poppie’s excellent adventure. When it comes to writers who are famous for turning real-life adventures into literary gold, Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway had nothing on me. That’s because their idea of adventure was to go rafting down the Mississippi, prospecting for gold, deep-sea fishing or big-game hunting. These pitiful excursions are walks in the park compared to spending two full days with a toddler.

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Erma Bombeck | Writers´ Workshop

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The workshop for humor writing, human interest writing, networking and getting published. Feeling sheepish at Hopi pottery day. My wife thinks I’m going deaf, but I think it’s just that I have so many incredible ideas bouncing around in my head and I’m quite sure one of them is going to make me incredibly famous, wealthy beyond all imagination and beloved by the masses that I’m constantly exploring my own brain. Some people also call it spacing out. I was a teacher, and I wasn’t sure I wanted to make pot...

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Swamp thing film festival | Erma Bombeck Writers´ Workshop

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The workshop for humor writing, human interest writing, networking and getting published. Swamp thing film festival. At the impressionable age of 17 I left the small town where I grew up to attend college in the big city. There I learned that movies weren’t just a convenient occasion to feel up a girl and, if she turned you down, to blow into your empty Milk Duds box and make a fart noise. No, they were films, a form of entertainment that, when molded by a master director an. Achieved the status of art.

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Erma Bombeck | Writers´ Workshop

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The workshop for humor writing, human interest writing, networking and getting published. Dating in a time warp. Online dating is like a time warp. I keep meeting the same guys over and over again; they just have different names. Here are six guys on repeat. 1 The Ravaged Romeo. He starts his dating profile by discussing his last failed relationship. Even if his profile’s okay, once we meet, I find he’s still pining over a lost love. And keeps talking about it, even as I back away. 3 The Freudian Fool.

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2014 Workshop | Erma Bombeck Writers´ Workshop

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The workshop for humor writing, human interest writing, networking and getting published. The next Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop will be March 31-April 2, 2016, on the campus of the University of Dayton, Erma Bombeck’s alma mater. Erma received from University of Dayton professor Brother Tom Price: “You can write! And you’re guaranteed to laugh. A lot. Legendary Emmy Award-winning talk show host. Best-selling novelist Lisa Scottoline. And writer-daughter, Francesca Serritella. Author Mary Lou Quinlan.

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Erma Swag | Erma Bombeck Writers´ Workshop

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The workshop for humor writing, human interest writing, networking and getting published. Erma merchandise is offered exclusively through the University of Dayton Bookstore. All proceeds benefit the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop Endowment Fund, which helps keep the workshop affordable for writers. To shop, click here. A set of 12 notecards with such favorite Erma quotes as “Seize the moment. Think of all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.” ($10). A “You Can Write! In 2004, Univer...

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Dog gone | Erma Bombeck Writers´ Workshop

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The workshop for humor writing, human interest writing, networking and getting published. Along with the four kids our combined family also came bundled with two canine additions: a brilliantly high-strung Border Collie, Meg, and a dumber than a doorstop Siberian Husky, Maya. But by far her single biggest doggie quirk is the fact that she’s not much of a dog at all. She doesn’t come when you call her, has not an ounce of loyalty and is driven solely by self-interest; basically, she’s a large, dumb ca...

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Letters for hot babes | Erma Bombeck Writers´ Workshop

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The workshop for humor writing, human interest writing, networking and getting published. Letters for hot babes. Consider the letters of the alphabet. By now you should know all 26 letters. Some of them conjure up images of hot women, whereas others something else, or nothing at all. This would go bad, however, as many things do. I is not a woman’s name either. But any babe who uses the word I too much is narcissistic and too self-involved. She’s probably an actress or supermodel because they tal...Jay i...

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The ice cream man cometh | Erma Bombeck Writers´ Workshop

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The workshop for humor writing, human interest writing, networking and getting published. The ice cream man cometh. In the whole wide world which, as NASA has proven, is a whole lot wider than Pluto, a Disney character who can’t hold a candle to Sesame Street star Elmo nothing is sweeter than my granddaughter, Chloe. The only thing that comes close is ice cream. So it was especially sweet when Chloe, who’s a big Elmo fan, recently met Christos Skartsiaris, our neighborhood ice cream man. Tell me about it...

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Erma Bombeck | Writers´ Workshop

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The workshop for humor writing, human interest writing, networking and getting published. Fat cat on a thin roof. It has been said, probably by Andrew Lloyd Webber, that a cat has nine lives. If that’s true, it means the cats in our humble home had 36. It also means I should win a Tony Award because my version of Cats ran even longer than Lloyd Webber’s, 27 years to his 18 and 9,855 daily performances to his measly 7,485. That did not stop her, however, from eating the boiled chicken that was part of Liz...