I’ve got dirt packed under my fingernails. There’s a blister the size of Delaware on my thumb. My face is sunburned in a distinctive raccoon pattern around my sunglasses. I’m walking with slight limp, thanks to the pain in my knee from too much squatting. This happens to me every spring. As soon winter gives…
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Even garden-variety military spouses inspire
I’ve always been a bit of a loner. This may seem to contradict my image as class clown, columnist, and book author — but it’s true nonetheless, and it has affected me as a military spouse. I’ve always taken longer than most to make friends. As a young child, I often played alone. As a…
NY Times best-selling author, Bruce Cameron, reviews new ‘Meat and Potatoes’ book
Back in 2013, I was at the Hilton Hotel in Hartford, Connecticut for the annual conference of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. My blog won an award that year, and Dave Barry had handed me my certificate at the big ceremony on Saturday night. Someone snapped a photo of Mr. Barry and each award…
Psychology Today blogger and popular humorist, Gina Barreca, gives her take on The Meat and Potatoes of Life: My True Lit Com
About eight years ago, I was rushing down a carpeted corridor in the Dayton Marriott hotel on my way to the ball room. A nervous first-time attendee of the wildly popular Erma Bombeck Writers Workshop, which happens every other year in Erma’s old Ohio hometown, I hurried toward the ballroom on my way to hear…
What I believe about Hell and hand baskets