Skirting the issue

Author(s)

Christine Tapper

Document Type

Blog

Publication Date

11-17-2019

Abstract

Penelope is attacking her wardrobe. I can tell she has no further use for me by her expression of utter disgust. All my life I've belonged to Penelope (at least five years). She wore me in the beginning. I am full bodied and calf length, made of indigo denim with buttons down the centre front. I came with a matching shirt, but when the fashion police turned cold on double denim, she began wearing the shirt with black skirts or pants, patterned ones, coloured ones, anything but me. She now favours shorter and longer lengths.

Keywords

Erma Bombeck, humor writing, Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop, University of Dayton

eCommons Citation

Tapper, Christine, "Skirting the issue" (2019). Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog. 1025.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/ebww_blog/1025