| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9780740721274 | | Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing | | Publish Date: 10/1/2003 | | Buy.com Sku: 33817930 | | Item#: BYFVR4 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 8845 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 5.25H x 5.25L x 0.25T | | Pages: 48 |
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| | | In 1979, someone asked humorist Erma Bombeck, If you had your life to live over, would you change anything? Her immediate answer was no, but once she thought about it, she changed her mind. The result was a classic column full of Bombeck s signature wit and warmth. Now the beloved column that has hung on hundreds of refrigerator doors has been cheerily illustrated and designed as a handsome gift book, Eat Less Cottage and More Ice Cream. In it, Bombeck gently reminds us of what is really important in life: If I had my life to live over again I would have waxed less and listened more. I would have cried and laughed less while watching television . . . and more while watching real life. But mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute of it . . . look at it and really see it . . . try it on . . . live it . . . exhaust it . . . and never give that minute back until there was nothing left of it. . . . Long-time fans of Erma Bombeck will be thrilled to have this favorite column in the form of a beautiful keepsake. Readers discovering Bombeck for the first time will become fans instantly. Eat Less Cottage and More Ice Cream offers wisdom to inspire all of us.
| Author Bio| Erma Bombeck | | Erma Louise Fiste began her career writing humor for her junior high school newspaper. Upon graduating, she was a copy girl for a newspaper in her hometown of Dayton, Ohio. She attended the University of Dayton, and then went on to become a reporter for the Dayton Journal-Herald and to marry William Bombeck, a sportswriter and later a high school principal. Bombeck raised three children and pursued such activities as oven-cleaning, bedsheet-laundering, and mediating sibling rivalries until she decided that that was not enough for her. In 1964, when her youngest child started school, Bombeck began writing columns for the Kettering-Oakwood Times at a $3 per column rate. She became a best-selling author who continued to produce humorous writings on motherhood and housework over a span of three decades. In 1992, Bombeck was stricken with breast cancer and had a mastectomy; soon after, her kidneys failed. She died of complications after a kidney transplant. |
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