Thursday, August 20, 2009

Poor Dear Abby!

Dear Abby was speechless when these came in:

Dear Abby:
A couple of women moved in across the hall from me. One is a middle-aged gym teacher and the other is a social worker in her mid-twenties. These two women go everywhere together and I've never seen a man go into their apartment or come out. Do you think they could be Lebanese?


Dear Abby:
What can I do about all the sex, nudity, language and violence on my VCR?


Dear Abby:
I have a man I never could trust. He cheats so much I'm not even sure this baby I'm carrying is his.


Dear Abby:
I am a twenty-three-year-old liberated woman who has been on the pill for two years. It's getting expensive and I think my boyfriend should share half the cost, but I don't know him well enough to discuss money with him.


Dear Abby:
I suspected that my husband had been fooling around, and when I confronted him with the evidence he denied everything and said it would never happen again.


Dear Abby:
Our son writes that he is taking Judo. Why would a boy who was raised in a good Christian home turn against his own?


Dear Abby:
I joined the Navy to see the world. I've seen it. Now, how do I get out?


Dear Abby:
My forty-year-old son has been paying a psychiatrist $50 an hour every week for two-and-a-half years. He must be crazy.


Dear Abby:
I was married to Bill for three months and I didn't know he drank until one night he came home sober.


Dear Abby:
My mother is mean and short-tempered. I think she is going through her mental pause.


Dear Abby:
You told some woman whose husband had lost all interest in sex to send him to a doctor. Well, my husband lost all interest in sex years ago and he is a doctor.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

AWE Up for Blog Award

A Writer's Edge has been nominated in Michael Stelzner's 4th annual 10 Top Blogs for Writers Contest. If you would like to vote for AWE as a 2009 Top 10 Blogs for Writers, please nominate it at http://bit.ly/8NF7E in a comment at end (scroll down). The AWE URL is www.writers-edge.info/Blog.html You'll have to think up something nice to say about the blog, too, or just echo what Paula Berinstein of The Writing Show said in her nomination:

Eeek, how can I choose between Michelle Rafter and Georganna Hancock? Okay, this year I'll nominate Georganna's A Writer's Edge at http://www.writers-edge.info/Blog.html. Next year it will be Michelle.

I never get tired of reading Georganna. She always seems to come up with new angles on issues of interest to writers, and she's a hoot besides. Full of personality, but not that awful snarkiness you find so often these days. A truly original thinker.
Nominating is apparently the same as voting. Stelzner's instructions:

How to Nominate Your Favorite Writing Blog:
  1. Reply to this message with your nomination (bottom of list)
  2. You have only one vote (only your first will be counted)
  3. Please include the web address of the blog (http://www.writers-edge.info/Blog.html)
  4. Explain why you think the blog is worthy of winning this year’s award?

To make the cut, a blog must be nominated more than once.

Nominations must be received by September 11, 2009.