How Erma saved me

Author(s)

Renee Schafer Horton

Document Type

Blog

Publication Date

4-5-2018

Abstract

Thirty-four years ago, I was a first-time mother barely surviving my liberated effort to "do it all." I moved frantically from long days as a newspaper reporter into long nights of a colicky baby, trying to prove myself perfect in both arenas. I wanted to quit the job, but I was fighting the voices of all my journalist friends who said if I quit my job I would NEVER. BE. HIRED. AGAIN. At least not as a reporter. And certainly not as columnist, which had always been my dream.

Keywords

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

eCommons Citation

Horton, Renee Schafer, "How Erma saved me" (2018). Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog. 1354.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/ebww_blog/1354