Erma Bombeck, author and humor columnist I’m old. That means I recall days when reading the morning newspaper was a ritual. That was how people were informed in the 1950s and 1960s, not misinformed, as too many are today by agenda-skewed social media or cable news. As a teen, my favorite newspaper sections were the cartoons and humor columns. That's a clue why I never became an investigative journalist. I did take a swing at writing a humor column for a small newspaper, but m

Just outside my grandmother’s lake cottage in western Michigan, there was a railroad track. As little kids visiting from Texas, my sister and I used to love hearing the locomotive coming twice a day. The roar of its engines, the haunting call of its horn, and the clickety-clack of the rail cars were magic to a child. And I fell in love with trains. After Bill and I married almost 20 years ago, we discovered a mutual desire to travel by train and eventually booked a 24-hour jo

About a year ago, I started ordering delivery from Randall's, a grocery chain in Austin affiliated with Safeway. I have a Randall's...

July 2, 2018 I recently tried out the new Goodreads Kindle giveaway, wherein I gave away 100 copies in Kindle format after paying...