Erma Bombeck had a way with words. She could evoke laughter, tears, while sharing the tales of being an everyday suburban housewife in the Midwest. She touched the lives of millions through her ...

The Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop has been dubbed the "Woodstock of Humor" and a "utopia" for writers — one "that only appears every other year, out of the mist, on the edge of the Great Miami River ...