Laugh out loud : 40 women humorists celebrate then and now ...before we forget

Summary: "Remember ironing your hair? Rolling it in soda cans to straighten it? Lacquering it with enough spray that it could ward off bullets? Ever slather on cement-colored lipstick so heavy, you looked like a zombie princess? Remember hot pants and platform heels? The danger of patent-leather shoes? Were you a secretary, nurse, or teacher, but only, as our mothers urged us, until you found "Mr. Right." In her new book, LAUGH OUT LOUD: 40 WOMEN HUMORISTS CELEBRATE THEN AND NOW...BEFORE WE FORGET, Allia Zobel Nolan and 40 ladies from the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop chronicle these blips in time as they look back at life in the past lane. Zobel Nolan and the other dancing queens then fast forward to today and write about what it's like to blink and wake up to be 50, 60, 70, and beyond--experiences ranging from cremation ceremonies to marrying younger men, from senior online dating to finding yourself a menopausal maniac in Mexico." -- Amazon.

Record details

ISBN: 9780692076194
ISBN: 0692076190
Physical Description: print
282 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Publisher: [Connecticut] : [AlliaWrites], [2018]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- Then. I came to dance / Michelle Poston Combs -- The hotbox girl caper / Amy Mullis -- When we were fashionistas / Denise Denton Thiery -- Princess with a lot to lose learns a lesson / Allia Zobel Nolan -- Clap, clap, clap / Tracy Roberts Buckner -- Lemon aid / Kelly L. McKenzie -- My love affair with Robert Redford / Carolyn Anderson Jones -- Saturday night 'ain't what it used to be / Allia Zobel Nolan -- Twist and shout: my life in and out of yoga / Karla Araujo -- The redder, the better / Lucia Paul -- Everything old is new again / Lori B. Duff -- When it comes to men, honey, nothing is better than nothing / Allia Zobel Nolan -- Confessions of my younger self / Janene Dutt -- Camera ready / Joanne Salemink -- It's party time / Sherry Stanfa-Stanley -- Letters from my past / Karen G. Anderson -- The snake lady / Leslie Bamford -- Being graceful isn't everything / Bonnie Jean Feldkamp -- "Take a letter, Miss Jones" / Allia Zobel Nolan -- Jennifer is the new Gertrude / Jennifer Byrne -- First kiss misfire / Janine V. Talbot -- Look good trying / Yvonne Ransel -- A single summer / Allia Zobel Nolan -- The music and motors of my life / Elaine Ambrose -- Madonna wannabe / Lisa Marlin -- and...Now. What a way to go / Kaye Curren -- Breathless encounter / Fritzy Dean -- A picture is worth a thousand words / Anne Elise O'Connor -- The new millennium office / Barbara L. Smith -- Freezing my assets off / DC Stanfa -- I don't want to be a mommy / Allia Zobel Nolan -- Bonfire of the inanities / Amy McVay Abbott -- Menopausal maniacs in Mexico / Janie Emaus -- Losing it / Cindy Eastman -- Sweating bullets: hot yoga and my search for inner peace / Pamela Wright -- It's all in the way you view things / Lorraine Ray -- Hi, I'm Allia and I'm a cat codependent / Allia Zobel Nolan -- Feeling kneady / Alice Muschany -- Color me happy / Amy Hartl Sherman -- Hanging on by a thread / Sharon Gerger -- Loving the skin I'm in / Sherri Kuhn -- Why have cod when you could have lobster? / Allia Zobel Nolan -- My Fitbit and I / Sandy Lingo -- Taking my face out of the drawer / Risa Nye -- The spin cycle / Tassie Hewitt Haney -- Only a coincidence / Georgia A. Hubley -- Love is more than a bottle of "heavenly nights" and a diamond eternity necklace / Allia Zobel Nolan -- You've been doing it all wrong / Christy Heitger-Ewing -- Scaling the weight wall / Sharon M. Kennedy -- The pierced / Allia Zobel Nolan -- A salute to Erma / Allia Zobel Nolan -- And the writers are -- About Erma Bombeck Writer's Workshop / Teri Rizvi.