... in Dr. Seuss quotes and Winnie the Pooh quotes. Revel in the pleasures of a child when you read Longfellow's famous poem The Children's Hour. "Children Are Like Kites" So Says Erma Bombeck originally appeared on About.com Quotations on Monday, November 23rd, 2009 at 06:06:57.

I'm a big fan of Erma. A collection of her greatest humor columns are on my nightstand table. That's sacred ground since I'm so busy - there is VERY MINIMAL READING OF BOOKS. But, I love flipping to a random page and reading a column or two. Often, I am amused, although sometimes, I am shaking with laughter, careful not to wake up The Husband. She wrote this after she was ...

With the exception of being "heterosexual" and "a tad vain about my appearance," I have always been an unconventional woman who wouldn't recognize traditional femininity if it kicked me in the balls (that I'd use such a metaphor only underscores my point). So it's no surprise that the helpful household hints article I wrote for the latest issue of Life@Home ...

Today I tracked down two Erma Bombeck books I'd not read before in a Newtown bookshop, and my squeals of delight were ... DF insisited on purchasing both for me. I've read and enjoyed Bombeck before, but read her work with a special poignancy now I'm ... and start a family myself. It's a different era now. Ms Bombeck was born the year after my grandmothers, her children are the same age as ...

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It’s literary suicide. (Erma Bombeck) If you’re ready to be inspired to write and join a fantastic group of people who will encourage you along the way then I highly recommend you register NOW for the Erma Bombeck Writers’s Conference. The registration is ongoing and they sell out usually in a ...

... children and dogs, so you can understand that my home is well lived in. Very well lived in. But, I am also trying to live my the Erma Bomeck poem more these days and understand the real important things in life. Like ... shot at life, I would seize every minute... look at it and really see it ... live it...and never give it back. Erma Bombeck _uacct = "UA-4628423-1"; urchinTracker();

... them just this once. I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression by Erma Bombeck **** Erma Bombeck is a jewel of humour. She embodies all the casually assumed values of ... nothing is safe from her shrewd observations and wit. There's only one rule in the Bombeck household: Take nothing too seriously, including yourself. The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine *** Another book ...

... laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. -- Erma Bombeck You know, I have no idea how many of y' ... Bombeck. She was kinda a huge presence for me when I was young. My family was always ending up with weird piles of mass market ... vintage children's story collections, Erma was ever present. I don't even know how many times I read her books ...

... work on material for a conference I'll be speaking at this coming April -- the Erma Bombeck Writer's Workshop at the University of Dayton. This conference, inspired by the late, GREAT Erma Bombeck takes place only once every two years. I'm honored to be on the faculty for the upcoming conference. If you're interested in attending, registration opens ...

... half-full or half-empty my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup. ~ Sam Lefkowitz I came from a family where gravy is considered a beverage. ~ Erma Bombeck Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They ... in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.~ Erma Bombeck On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner ...

... : The Mister says this post is nothing but whining. Consider yourselves warned. I'd take a trip. To Dayton, OH. Yeah, I said Dayton. Why, do you say? For this. I'd love to attend the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop. I started reading Erma decades ago, when I was doing my first stint as a SAHM (but we didn't call ourselves that then). I liked her ...

Anita Renfroe is a humorist who's been described as "Erma Bombeck meets Carol Burnett, with a bit of Weird Al Yankovic thrown in." As the key note speaker at last week's Georgia Writers Association conference, she kept us laughing as she passed on insights gained from writing seven books. Here are my takeaways ( ...

... writing. (And as I write this, I'll be writing a fiction project as well - Cicatrix, which will be so damn demanding and require such perfection that I'll never be able to half-ass anything ever again.) There is an Erma Bombeck quote I like: "When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not ...

... , this story. It is so l ng. Where's a goddamn editor when you need one?) (Oh. Right.) I took a literature course in American Comedy. Mark Twain. James Thurber. Erma Bombeck. Garrison Keillor. David Sedaris. While I was sort-of famous for being one of Those Students who regularly wrote A-level papers on books that I didn't even ...

... awesome. Any book that has that on the cover has to be great. Cake Wrecks? Because it’s CAKE WRECKS, y’all. ‘Nuff said. The Erma Bombeck books are CLASSIC. My mom had a couple of her books and a record album of her comedy when I was growing up. I thought she was hysterical and now, as an blogger, I strive to someday ...