After my post yesterday, I got an email from my mother-in-law. She said I missed my calling as a writer, I could be another Erma Bombeck. At first, I was a little uncomfortable being a likeness to Erma. I'd always remembered the picture of Erma from the link above - old...with all those teeth and that was all I knew of her. I remember my parents reading Erma's articles in the newspaper and liking them but, I had never read anything she'd written. Erma was old back then. What could she know?
What does Erma know? A lot of things - I'm just finding out!
Jeremy explained to me that his parents had really liked Erma in her day. I read some of Erma's quotes yesterday online and I now see the likeness my mother-in-law was referring to and I liked what I read. I thought to myself, 'hmm, I want to read more, I wonder if the library has any of her books.' I went to my library's website and they did! I added some of her books to my wish-list.
So, Mom - Thank you for your compliment. I'm always glad to be able to make you smile. I'm sorry, I didn't know yesterday what I know now. I see the likeness that you were referring to - not just all those teeth! Thank you for pointing out some new reading material as well. Maybe that writer thing might come along one day. You just never know.
Oh, I can totally see the likeness... in your writing, that is. ;) I have definitely loved reading what you write ever since you've started blogging. I think so many people are scared about not knowing all the grammatical/punctuation/spelling "rules," and it holds them back from just expressing themselves in written words. Those things are important, but I firmly believe people can be great writers without all that knowledge. That's what editors are for, anyway. A unique voice is so much harder to come by, in my opinion.
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