My mother needed her Christmas card list updated because — well there’s no gentle way to put it — her friends keep dying. Since I was the one who volunteered to print the address labels for her Christmas cards the year after my dad…
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Book Excerpt on Medium today
Hi all – if you have a second, check out my book excerpt – A trip to Hollister Hell – over on Medium today. Trying to reach new readers so any traffic/claps or comments on their website would be a…
Tagged with: back to school, Back-to-school shopping, Medium, parenting, parenting humor, shopping
Posted in books, humor, kids, mother daughter, mothering, parenting, Uncategorized, Writing
Posted in books, humor, kids, mother daughter, mothering, parenting, Uncategorized, Writing
My book featured in Anchora Magazine!
Excited and proud to have my book featured in the Summer edition of Anchora Magazine in their monthly book roundup of Delta Gamma authors. Yes! I was in a sorority! Go ahead and mock me. I can take it! BTW…
Tagged with: book review, book roundup, Delta Gamma Sorority, Is That The Shirt You're Wearing?, sorority
Posted in book review, books, Family, humor, mothering, News, sorority, Uncategorized
Posted in book review, books, Family, humor, mothering, News, sorority, Uncategorized
Refill the Damn Water Pitcher!
I had the house to myself so I made another video! Kids – Refill the Damn Water Pitcher! …. (please)
Erma’s Humor Writer of the Month!
I’m honored to have been named Humor Writer of the Month at the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop Nice plug for the book and a link to pre-orders!
To Heck With Waze, I’m Taking Metro
“I can survive two weeks driving to Santa Monica. How bad could it be?” I told my husband after accepting a freelance job there recently. How bad could it be? I’ll tell you — an hour and a freaking half bad,…
Tagged with: EXPO Line, Gridlock, LA Traffic, Los Angeles Metro Trains, mass transit, Measure M, public transportation, Santa Monica
Posted in humor, los angeles, News, public transit, Uncategorized
Posted in humor, los angeles, News, public transit, Uncategorized
TRUMP AVERSION THERAPY BILL
Posted today under pen name Bunny McGillicutty on The Dandy Goat In an unusual show of unity, House Republicans joined Democrats in a 421-2 vote to pass the Trump Aversion Therapy Act, which would allocate $300 million towards the rehabilitation…
Tagged with: Aversion Therapy, Donald Trump, election campaign, politics
Posted in comedy, humor, politics
Posted in comedy, humor, politics
Flashback Thursday: A Trumped Up Government
I was doing a little housekeeping in my blog and discovered this piece I wrote back in May 2011 when Trump first made noise about running for president, then backed out. I wrote this back when the idea of Trump,…
I SOLD MY BOOK!
I’m very excited to announce that I sold my book to Tidal Press and it will be traditionally published in May/June of 2017!!!! The book is a collection of comic essays, a few you might have read here plus many brand new…
Tagged with: book published, comic essays, essay collection, writing
Posted in books, humor, PUBLISHING, Uncategorized, Writing
Posted in books, humor, PUBLISHING, Uncategorized, Writing
I Jinxed El Niño – You Can Blame Me
“The El Niño rains are still coming! They’ll be here in January . . . February, no, we mean March, possibly April, or even late May,” the local weather forecasters all say. Yet our days feel remarkably like summer, and…
Tagged with: El Nino, humor, meteorology, rains, Science, Storm watch, Weather
Posted in humor, life, los angeles, News, Science, Southern California, Weather
Posted in humor, life, los angeles, News, Science, Southern California, Weather
Kristen Hansen Brakeman 