Though Dayton’s beloved Erma Bombeck wrote thousands upon thousands of words about domestic life, drawing from her own experiences as a woman and mother, she didn’t want her life to be written about ...

“If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it,” is wisdom that humorist Erma Bombeck generously imparted to 30 million readers of her “At Wit’s End” syndicated column that ran in 900 newspapers ...

We’ve come a long way since the days of Erma Bombeck’s candidly comic newspaper column on the trials and tribulations of motherhood. Down-in-the-trenches mothering blogs are now just a click away, ...

THE BASICS: ERMA BOMBECK: AT WIT’S END, a one-woman show about the beloved newspaper columnist, written by twin sisters Allison and Margaret Engel, directed by Mark Cuddy, starring Pam Sherman opened ...

Humorist Erma Bombeck wrote syndicated newspaper columns for more than 30 years. She also produced a couple of TV shows, appeared on ABC’s “Good Morning America” for 11 years, gave speeches across the ...

The Silent Generation, born between 1928 and 1945, grew up during times of economic hardship and war, leading to a reputation for resilience, loyalty, and a preference for stability over revolution.

Columnist Erma Bombeck, the housewife with the gift of distilling humor from ordinary moments of everyday life, died yesterday in a San Francisco hospital. She was 69. The cause was complications from ...

Once upon a time, readers across the country opened the newspaper and laughed. It was Erma Bombeck’s fault. Bombeck, who lived in Paradise Valley, wrote a humor column about family from the mid-1960s ...

In February, Suzette Martinez Standring, a multi-talented friend I met through the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, competed in “Erma’s Got Talent-The Stand-Up Auditions.” Erma refers to Erma ...

The Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop marks its 25th anniversary this year and will keep the celebration going through next spring with a keynote lineup of bestselling authors and rising comedy stars, ...