If life is a bowl of cherries - what am I doing in the pits?

From the Publisher This book hits home in the passage about The Mother Mystique. The one passage I'd love to share is my mother's metamorphosis with her physical appearance through the years. Of course, she had her role models, and by judging from her fashion tastes and family photos, my mother was carbon copy of the following women: 1959 Betty Crocker (apron and waffle iron included). 1963 Doris Day. This phase included a beehive do, box suits and pillbox hats. Que sera, sera son. 1970 It's a story of a lady who looks like Carol Brady. 1978 Schlemiel, schlamazel look at me I'm dressing like Penny Marshall. 1986 Nancy Regan reds. Alternating with Barbara Bush blues. (Hairstyles not included). 1998 Golden Girl wanna be. Mom's outfits include Bea Arthur gray hair and designer seat suits. -- Louis Mendez, editorial From the Inside Flap "See if you can read a paragraph without laughing out loud." Art Buchwald The enchanting lady of laughter has done it again--this time taking a hilarious swipe at husbands, honeymoons, tennis elbow, marriage, lettuce, the national anthem, and a host of other domestic dilemmas. "It's fun from cover to cover." THE HARTFORD COURANT The hilarious #1 New York Times bestseller: Erma Bombeck’s take on marriage and family life is “fun from cover to cover” (Hartford Courant). Ever since she was a child, Er ma Bombeck has been an expert worrier, and married life has only honed that skill. She gets anxious about running out of ball bearings; about snakes sneaking in through the pipes; about making meaningful conversation on New Year’s Eve. Married life, she realizes, is an unpredictable saga even when you know exactly how loud your husband snores every night—and she wouldn’t have it any other way. In this crisp collection of essays, Bombeck shows off the irresistible style that made her one of America’s favorite humorists for more than three decades. When she sharpens her wit, no family member is sacred and no self-help fad is safe. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erma Bombeck including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate. In this uproarious encore to The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank, Erma Bombeck confronts society's greatest challenge: surviving the Seventies -- the fears, the worries, the anxieties. She shares with her readers some of her deepest concerns: discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along; getting into the Guinness Book of Records under "Pregnancy: Oldest Recorded Birth;" leaving the world suddenly and knowing that no one else in the family can replace a toilet-tissue spindle. - Jacket flap.

"see If You Can Read A Paragraph Without Laughing Out Loud."
art Buchwald The Enchanting Lady Of Laughter Has Done It Again—this Time Taking A Hilarious Swipe At Husbands, Honeymoons, Tennis Elbow, Marriage, Lettuce, The National Anthem, And A Host Of Other Domestic Dilemmas.
"it's Fun From Cover To Cover."
the Hartford Courant

"The enchanting lady of laughter has done it again--this time taking a hilarious swipe at husbands, honeymoons, tennis elbow, marriage, lettuce, the national anthem, and a host of other domestic dilemmas."--P. [4] of cover Next to hot chicken soup, a tattoo of an anchor on your chest, and penicillin, I consider a honeymoon one of the most overrated events in the world.