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...Erma's Laugh...
...hardworking of the development's house-proud do-it-yourselfers. All the houses had Early American furniture, including the inevitable rocker with a cushion tied to the back. The idea of Bombeck as a hopelessly disorganized housewife "is, at the very least, highly exaggerated. When you went to Erma's place, you never had to step over dirty underwear. At least in the evenings...
...adds that as a kid, "you're pretty selfabsorbed. You never look at your parents and think they're a little overworked. If anything, you think the opposite. The underlying thing is that she has pretty much been our mother. You think of her as Mother, not Erma Bombeck...
...handsome new house in Paradise Valley, overlooking Phoenix, is calm now when calm is needed. There is a secretary to intercept phone calls and a maid to chase dust balls. Bombeck does not even know if there is a septic tank. Bill and Erma have separate offices, and she is in hers by 8 each morning, after walking a "killer mile" or puffing along with a videotaped exercise routine. At her desk she is all business. When she has time, she weaves twigs and bits of string into a play and says that the first act is in workable order...
...families to win sympathetic chuckles from readers. And readers cannot seem to get enough. Most of these Bombeckians receive more mail by far than their publications' other life-style columnists, some are nationally syndicated, and a few have had their work collected in book form. None are precise Erma clones, and they wryly observe life from varieties of settings including city apartments and even Embassy Row. But wherever they call home, the dryer is on the fritz and the kids are unfathomable. Following is a selection of the different types who are working their own corners of territory...