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	Erma Bombeck Online
		Recognizable in the Erma Bombeck profile of American moms is the low esteem in which a housewife's role is regarded by society; recognizable too is the low esteem in which housewives hold themselves.
		Erma Bombeck was utterly honest about the highs and lows of family life: Not for her the smug lecturing about a mother's crucial role in child development or the cheerful updates on new heights in household cleanliness.
		At bottom, Erma Bombeck, who died in 1996 after a kidney transplant, has a lot more to offer than a mere chronicle of housewifery before "women's liberation." Her books are a wake-up call.
	www.ermabombeck.com (1296 words)

	Erma Bombeck biography: a life of humor
		Erma Louise (Harris) Bombeck was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1927.
		At the age of 20, Bombeck was diagnosed with polycistic kidney disease, a hereditary disorder which causes cysts to form on the kidneys.
		Erma Bombeck died of complications from the kidney transplant April 22, 1996.
	vava.essortment.com /bombeckermacol_rbzi.htm (572 words)

	Ohio Reading Road Trip \| Erma Louise Bombeck Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bombeck tended to the necessary, yet mundane, chores of homemaking and motherhood.
		Erma Bombeck spent the next twenty-seven years writing first newspaper columns and then books that touched the lives and hearts of not only American women, but an international audience that included men and children as well.
		Erma Bombeck continued writing and publishing right through a number of serious health problems in the early 1990's, including a bout with breast cancer and another with kidney disease.
	www.ohioreadingroadtrip.org /bombeck (800 words)

	Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials
		She was born Erma Louise Fiste in Dayton, Ohio to a father who was a city crane operator.
		Erma interviewed her and the story was published on the feature page.
		Erma was brought back to her hometown and interred in the family plot.
	www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=3722 (498 words)

	Newswise
		Newswise — Long before Erma Bombeck waxed eloquent about the perils of raising children and training husbands, she wrote tongue-in-cheek columns about taking the bus to work, filling in for the boss while he’s on vacation and experiencing problems with escalators.
		Erma Bombeck would have celebrated her 78th birthday on Feb. 21, but the gift of her humor lives on because of the online museum created by the University of Dayton with the Bombeck family.
		Erma Bombeck credited the University of Dayton with preparing her for life and work, for making her believe she could write.
	www.newswise.com /articles/view/509686 (550 words)

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		Bill Bombeck, who will be on hand for the dedication, said his late wife always had a special fondness for learning centers and teachers.
		"Erma's personal life and public comments about families and children made this a natural choice for us and the University," says Bombeck, co-chair of UD's $150 million Call to Lead Campaign, which ends in June and is expected to reach its goal.
		For three decades, Erma Bombeck celebrated the extraordinary in the ordinary and chronicled life's absurdities in a syndicated column carried by 700 newspapers prior to her death of kidney disease in 1996.
	www.udayton.edu /news/nr/021902.html (1082 words)

	Erma Bombeck's 'Good Morning America' Segments Now Online
		Erma Bombeck would have celebrated her 77th birthday on Feb. 21, but the gift of her humor lives on because of an online museum created by the University of Dayton with the Bombeck family.
		Erma Bombeck graduated from the University of Dayton in 1949 with a degree in English and never forgot that she got her start as a writer at UD.
		Erma Bombeck was one of the original members of the GMA cast, which included David Hartman, Rona Barrett, Jonathan Winters and Geraldo Rivera.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2004/2/emw105904.htm (687 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Erma Bombeck
		Erma Bombeck, writer, humorist,; and television personality, was primarily identified as a housewife and mother.
		Bombeck's mother, who worked in a factory, was only sixteen when Bombeck was born, and her father was a crane operator who died when she was nine years old.
		Bombeck continued to write for the newspaper until 1953, when she and Bill adopted a child.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200119 (741 words)

	Online Erma Bombeck Museum Unveils Lost Sitcoms
		Erma Bombeck would have celebrated her 76th birthday on Feb. 21, but the gift of her humor lives on because of an online museum created by the University of Dayton with the Bombeck family.
		While Erma Bombeck is best known for her newspaper column which celebrated the extraordinary in the ordinary and chronicled life's absurdities, the "Maggie" sitcom showed her versatility as a writer.
		Erma's syndicated column was carried by 700 newspapers prior to her death of kidney disease in 1996.
	www.urlwire.com /news/022103.html (1094 words)

	ERMA BOMBECK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Erma Bombeck - the wisecracking antidote to Martha Stewart - died yesterday of complications related to a kidney transplant earlier this month.
		Bombeck's column first appeared in the Dayton (Ohio) Journal Herald, where she was paid $3 per piece.
		Erma Bombeck's passing is a great loss for those ordinary people who like to laugh.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1996/vp960423/04230010.htm (247 words)

	2blowhards.com: Erma Bombeck
		Until her death in 1996, the humor columnist Erma Bombeck was a huge presence in American popular culture.
		I right now remember two stories: one where her teenagers were having a party, and she and her husband were hiding upstairs not sure they wanted to know what was going on, and her husband then got up and put on a cardigan sweater.
		Erma was the commencement speaker for the college graduating class one year ahead of me; unfortunately, my year, the speaker was Dan Quayle.
	www.2blowhards.com /archives/001860.html (1077 words)

	Erma Bombeck - The WWWomen Quilt Pages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"Bombeck began a career in journalism after graduating from the University of Dayton, but left the paper in 1953 to start a family with husband Bill.
		Once her children were of school age, Bombeck convinced the editor of a local paper to let her produce a column.
		"In 1993, Bombeck's kidneys failed as a result of the polycistic kidney disease she was diagnosed with at age 20.
	www.wwwomen.com /users/hub/quilt/erma.html (167 words)

	To Erma Bombeck on Mothers' Day: Discussion
		I believe that during one of her appearances on the Johnny Carson Show, Erma Bombeck in response to Carson asking her opinion about raising children, said the following: "Children are a punishment from God." A friend of mine insists that this statement originated with the comedian/actor David Steinberg.
		Erma used to have a column in one of our magazines here in Australia years ago, and she wrote one piece about the loss of her mother it was both with humour and sadness.
		I wrote to Erma at the beginning of that interest, telling her what a profound impact she had made on me. She wrote back on her simple stationery with her own typewriter telling me how much it meant to her.
	www.bestyears.com /ermabombeckdisc.htm (2466 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Two years after the Bombeck family announced that they would donate Erma's papers and artifacts to her alma mater, the University of Dayton is sharing part of the collection via the Internet.
		Samples of Erma's writing in the museum include the note cards she used to make remarks when she received an honorary degree from UD in 1981, her typewritten remarks from UD's 1982 writers' workshop and eight columns from when she was a student at the University of Dayton.
		For three decades, Bombeck celebrated the extraordinary in the ordinary and chronicled life's absurdities in a syndicated column carried by 700 newspapers prior to her death of kidney disease in 1996.
	www.udayton.edu /news/nr/021502.html (760 words)

	To Erma Bombeck on Mothers' Day
		Bombeck began her career in 1964 when, fueled by the likes of Majorie Lord ("Make Room for Daddy"), Jane Wyatt ("Father Knows Best"), Harriet Nelson ("Ozzie and Harriet"), and Barbara Billlingsley ("Leave It to Beaver"), the idealized picture of American mothers was at its zenith.
		Bombeck’s reaction to such perfectionism was to admit her own failure to achieve it.
		Bombeck explained by telling about her mother’s silence during the times "I fell flat on my face, made a lousy judgment, and took a stand that I had to pay dearly for.
	www.bestyears.com /ermabombeck.html (549 words)

	Rare Erma Bombeck Columns Released for Viewing; Teen-ager Already Possessed Trademark Wit
		Because Erma was only 19 when she wrote them, few people have ever seen these columns, which provide a glimpse into just how great a writer Erma was at an early age.
		DAYTON, OH (PRWEB) February 8, 2005 -- Long before Erma Bombeck waxed eloquent about the perils of raising children and training husbands, she wrote tongue-in-cheek columns about taking the bus to work, filling in for the boss while he’s on vacation and experiencing problems with escalators.
		The University of Dayton holds the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop (www.HumorWriters.org) every other year to teach and encourage humor and human interest writers.
	www.prweb.com /releases/2005/2/prwebxml206514.php (672 words)

	Salon.com Life \| Are we not housewives?
		I don't care what feminist moms say, Erma Bombeck is still the most relevant and hilarious voice in the wilderness of motherhood.
		While she may have been amusing for a decade or so, Erma, I now know, is no longer an appropriate humorist for today's mothers.
		Recognizable in the Bombeck profile of American moms is the low esteem in which a housewife's role is regarded by society; recognizable too is the low esteem in which housewives hold themselves.
	www.salon.com /mwt/feature/2002/01/10/erma_bombeck (713 words)

	Erma Bombeck - Reviews on RateItAll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I fell in love with Erma's books before I had children and a home of my own and liked them even better after I had children and a home.
		She truely understood motherhood with all its many joys and sorrows and knew that it was better to laugh than to cry.
		Erma Bombeck is not so much a comedy writer as she is a philosopher on the simple things in life.
	www.rateitall.com /i-12888-erma-bombeck.aspx (330 words)

	CNN - Erma Bombeck dies at age 69 - April 22, 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		SAN FRANCISCO, California (CNN) -- Erma Bombeck, the housewife-turned-columnist who made fun of life in the suburbs, died Monday.
		Bombeck was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a mastectomy in 1992.
		When word spread that Bombeck was suffering from kidney failure, she said about 30 faithful readers offered to donate their kidneys.
	www.cnn.com /US/9604/22/bombeck (295 words)

	Erma Bombeck -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Erma Bombeck -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		She started her career in 1949 as a reporter for the (Click link for more info and facts about Dayton Journal Herald) Dayton Journal Herald, but after marrying school administrator Bill Bombeck, a college friend, she left the job and raised three children.
		In 1971, the Bombecks moved to (Click link for more info and facts about Paradise Valley, Arizona) Paradise Valley, Arizona.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/er/erma_bombeck.htm (201 words)

	Thank you, Erma Bombeck by Karan Davis Harp
		Here’s to the woman who, when others were burning their bras to make it in the workplace, went head to head with a patriarchal economy on her own terms,
		The kind people at Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop, which is working on an archive, have agreed to allow me to point you their way for other questions.
		Bombeck than I ever will, and are very open to helping you.
	members.tripod.com /%7Elaughlines/bombeck.html (650 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Aunt Erma's Cope Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		No longer will she be the only woman on the block to wear a slip under a see-through sweater, or feel guilty if the sun sets on an empty crockpot, nor will she care that she flunked her paper towel test.
		Erma Bombeck chronicles a year in the 80s when she devoted her time and energy to self-help books, like the "Total Woman."
		A reader both feels sympathy for Erma's somewhat bumbling attempts to become what these books demand of her, and for her harried husband, who must have woken up every morning to wonder who his wife is today.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0449209377?v=glance (826 words)

	Pun of the Day funny people: Erma Bombeck
		At the age of 20 she was diagnosed with polycistic kidney disease, a hereditary disorder which causes cysts to form on the kidneys.
		After five years with the paper, Erma and Bill were ready to start a family, and she left her career behind.
		When her children reached school age, Erma spent months talking to the editor of a local paper about the idea of producing a daily humor column.
	www.punoftheday.com /funny002.html (516 words)

	Erma Bombeck
		Erma Bombeck, who graduated from the University of Dayton in 1949, credited Brother Tom Price, an English professor, with saying three little words that changed her life -- "you can write!" The workshop honors her memory.
		Those who register early will also receive a free Erma Bombeck mouse pad and be entered in a drawing to win an Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop poster autographed by Bil Keane, creator of the "Family Circus" comic strip.
		Sponsors of the 2002 Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop include Andrews McMeel Universal, Writers' Digest Book Club, Dayton Daily News, ActiveDayton.com, Books and Co., Suburban Newspapers of Dayton, WHIO-TV, WYSO Radio and the University of Dayton National Alumni Association.
	www.absolutewrite.com /news/erma_bombeck2.htm (570 words)

	Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop
		Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop director, Tim Bete, recently sold his first book.
		Erma Bombeck's smiling face is back on the University of Dayton campus thanks to a historical marker from the Ohio Bicentennial Commission and Ohio Historical Society.
		In an interview with Erma, which was published in the Winter 1991 issue of the University of Dayton Quarterly, Erma explained her writing process.
	www.humorwriters.org (1716 words)

	Erma Bombeck
		Remembering Erma: a year after her death, Erma Bombeck's friends and family recall the woman who made laughter a household word.
		America's moms are rallying round Erma Bombeck and her fresh-baked wit.
		Erma in Bomburbia; for a survivor of housework and motherhood, laughter is still the best revenge.
	www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0762075.html (254 words)

	Erma bombeck - gotta love her!!! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Erma Bombeck was one of the funniest and most sarcastic writers of our time.
		I have been collecting little bits of Erma's more quotable quotes over time from newspapers, T-shirts, calenders, you name it.
		All credit for the following goes to Erma Bombeck (may she rest in peace) and may she always be remembered for the wonderful woman that she was.
	www.gaylasgarden.com /menu/erma.htm (588 words)

	Erma Bombeck's Screen Saver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As part of the 2002 Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop, the University of Dayton created an Erma Bombeck screen saver especially for writers.
		The screen saver, which works on both PCs and Macs, is full of Erma Bombeck's words of wisdom, such as "Writers do not have a market on procrastination.
		The newsletter, which is published about once a month, includes information on the annual Erma Bombeck Writing Competition, online chats with authors, humor writing tips, and details about the writing workshop.
	www.clickz.com /experts/em_mkt/case_studies/article.php/900691 (789 words)

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