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DRIVING BACKWARDS ON
A ONE-WAY STREET:
A Savvy Senior’s map to finding
humor in everything.
Another collection of entertaining chuckles from my nationally syndicated humor column, “Laverne’s View.” Each column showcases humor extracted from my everyday life; guaranteed to lift your spirits, bring a smile to your face and, in many cases, cause you to burst out laughing.
Stories include my struggle to get out of and back into a soaking wet, one-piece, industrial-strength bathing suit; and how a 50-plus friend had her breasts super-sized and became an exotic dancer. It’s about how I dealt with my husband’s retirement (not well), my battle with a box of almond cookies, how my electric scooter betrayed me, and my appalling experience with an uncooperative suppository. And, it’s about a stranger whose words, and a not-so-gentle shove, motivated me to continue walking when painful arthritis was fighting to keep me from reaching Macy’s cosmetic department.
HOW THE (BLEEP)
DID I GET THIS OLD?
Catastrophes that attack and assault
when you’re back is turned.
It’s a collection of laugh-out-loud columns I wrote during my first thirteen years as a humor columnist. Fast and easy to read by the pool, on the beach, in bed and in the bathroom.
It’s the funny side of finding myself back in the dating scene after the breakup of a 23-year marriage. It’s about the aches, pains and general annoyances of arthritis, cataracts, and random hair growth. It about me cursing at hermetically sealed packages, battling weight, and sulking over having to trade in sexy strappy heels for orthotic shoes, with laces. It’s about what passes as fashion, today, and the way men and women communicate.
It covers what it was like being a housewife and a parent back in the 1950s through1970s, before the Woman’s Liberation Movement opened my eyes, and how I failed miserably at both.
What my readers say. . .
Dear Laverne,
I am a 60’s plus WASP. I’m not ashamed to tell you that I almost pee’d in my
pants while reading your SINFULLY MAHVELOUS”. Thank you so much for a good old belly bouncer.
Gordon
Good morning Ms. Pollak (Bardy):
Steve Sears, Bloomfield based freelance writer here. Please know that, at 6:15 AM this morning, your column, Help! I’m Drowning in Minutia, had me in stitches. There’s no better way for a tired writer to start his day…
Steve Sears