I've read "bird by birb" and "Traveling Mercies" by Anne Lamott. Loved them both. She is the most honest writer I've read. Has anyone read her latest book? Here's the Amazon.com review:

Amazon.com
Few people can write about faith, parenting, and relationships as can the talented, irreverent Anne Lamott. With characteristic black humor, ("Everyone has been having a hard time with life this year; not with all of it, just the waking hours") she updates us on the ongoing mayhem of her life since Traveling Mercies, and continues to unfold her spiritual journey.
Plan B finds Lamott wrestling with mid-life hormones and weight gain while parenting Sam, now a teenager with his own set of raging hormones. Her observations cover everything from starting a Sunday school to grief over the death of her beloved dog, Sadie; lamenting the war to bitterness over her relationship with her now-departed mother.

As she tugs and pokes out the knots in a slender gold chain necklace, it becomes a metaphor for letting go and learning to forgive. "…any willingness to let go inevitably comes from pain; and the desire to change changes you, and jiggles the spirit, gets to it somehow, to the deepest, hardest, most ruined parts." It’s her willingness to show us the knotted-up, "ruined parts" of her life that make this collection of sometimes uneven essays so compelling.

"Everything feels crazy," writes Lamott, adding, "But on small patches of earth all over, I can see just as much messy mercy and grace as ever…." Lamott’s essays will serve as reminders to readers of the patches of messy mercy and grace in a chaotic world.--Cindy Crosby

I've got to get it. So many books, so little time. I wish we had a lending library in here.

Queenie, I always read about writers who are avid reader. Thier advice is always to read, read, read. Are you an avid reader? If so, what other humor writers have you read other than Erma and Lewis?

Mom was a huge Erma fan. It's hard for me to think about Erma without thinking about Mom. She always related to her writing.

Wouldn't it be cool if our queen could take her place? Keep getting those columns girl and you're on your way.

Have you researched getting a syndicated column? If not, that should be your next project.