on Jane Friedman site:
When I was in elementary school, I can remember being told by more than a few kids, “You think you’re funny but you’re snot.”
Well now, all these years later, the laugh is on those poopyheads because, apparently, I am funny. Or at least the folks at the Erma Bombeck Writing Workshop think so because they’ve honored me with the distinction of “Humor Writer of the Month,” in conjunction with the release of my new essay collection Party Like It’s 2044: Finding the Funny in Life and Death.
But am I a humor writer?