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Mother’s Day 2023: Erma Bombeck Wasn’t a ‘Birthing Person”

May 14, 2023 3:00 amMay 14, 2023 8:26 am

One of my favorite writers ever was the inimitable Erma Bombeck. Dubbed the “Socrates of the ironing board” by Life magazine, she was the queen of sassy, funny, irony and reality. Bombeck was a syndicated columnist, author, sitcom writer, “Good...

On This Mother’s Day 2022, What is a Woman?

May 8, 2022 2:35 amMay 13, 2023 3:08 pm

What is a woman? That question appeared to stump United States Supreme Court nominee Kentanji Brown Jackson. During Jackson’s confirmation hearing in the U.S. Senate, Sen. Marsha Blackburn asked Brown Jackson if she “could provide a definition for the word...