Sam and Erma ~ 80rand His Past~.. God Thought He/Vhat to Give a Child Once a Day,Brother's Keeper or Keeper's~ Workers of the World,forkers... Workers.. ~ ? ~ ~ ~ It's Not Avoid Being Born ~ Art and Erma ~ 97:ated Rot... What to Do with BareJoin... The Moth That Was on aPaper Chase.. ~ A Place to Get It Allican Women Has the Right to KnowLbeckiana RevisitedmII ~ 116Inch Shelf of Books.. ~ The Story of~ Erma Bombeck's Coast-to-CoastL Color Set the Grass Turned3ehind Bill Russell in the Parade ofto Do to Top Total Success8 ~ Alter Erma ~ 140ci Yellow Hard Hat... Whatever~sewife?. ~ ~ The Day the Volunteershe Great American Pollutioniht Tinker Bell Died... Just a NormalMother... When Bombeck Speaks,~... Campaigning for Equalat Dishes, That's What's Cooking![) ~ Here's Erma! ~ 159 ~. The Bosom That Turned into a Pain of Suburbia Is EverywhereChapter 1 RootsHumor Is a Full-Time Job The woman is pleasant-looking, housewifey, brown-eyed, and comfortable. She speaks in a mild middle-American voice, usually accompanying her speech witha smile~ Her words may be mild, but occasionally theycarry hidden barbs~ It is morning, seven-thirty by the block, and the womansits at a typewriter in a garage that has been convertedinto a workroom at the back of a suburban house in Par-adise Valley, Arizona~ After a long time cogitating, she finally inserts a blanksheet of typing paper into the typewriter and stares at thepaper. Her mind runs down a long list of ideas she hasbeen mulling over in her mind. In despair she discardsevery one of them. She glances around at the walls of her workroom. Pagesof feature articles, framed and mounted, hang on thewalls. One of the pictures is entitled, "The Socrates of theIroning Board." It is a photograph of her, the likenessunmistakable. There are Headliner of the Year awards andphotographs of friends, among them Dinah Shore, ArthurGodfrey, Paul Newman, and Art Buchwald.