Liza Blue Humorist

Too uncomfortable with flat-out self promotion, my logo pens are the perfect way to anonymously support my Substack account (lizabluehumorist.substack.com).  I have left them at the bank, Starbucks, Social Security office and grocery store.  Goal is to have a pen in every state by the end of the year.   

I spent two weeks on the couch riding out the extreme fatique from a COVID episode.  My constant companion?  Dateline TV, a non stop calvalcade of true crime documentaries, perfect for my flickering attention.  Here's what I learned.

In the mid 60's, many 1950s housewives found Betty Friedan's "Feminine Mystique"  too aggressive to assimilate.   My mother found the same message more palatable in Peg Bracken's "I Hate to Cook Book."

Take a look into your fridge.  What does it say about you?

Repurposing hymns to honor those hardworking sphincters that make us human.

A memoir piece, a swirling jumble of our common "social emotions."

Advice for crossword puzzle enthusiasts, collected over a 50 year span of doing the NY Time Sunday crossword.

Life lesson from the Beatles as a 12-year-old in 1964.

The emotional experiene of visiting the American Cemetery in Normandy, France, overlooking Omaha Beach.

My first ever experiences with these basic social emotions.

My first ever experience of these basic social emotions

Pithy nuggets of word play curated from a year of Substack notes.

A tutorial on young love.  The four lads made it seem to easy!

The song that entranced me in the 1960s.  After 55+ years, what do those lyrics mean?

Pithy nuggets of word play culled from a year of Substack notes (lizabluehumorist.substack.com).

Do glasses frames contribute to your self-identity?

Aside from the real one, everyone porbably has at least one near-death experience in a life time.  Have you had yours yet?

The US audience has been introduced to the term "heinous" through 20+ seasons of Law and Order SVU.  Who would other authors define the term?

Or is the man-cave or barbecue grill an inviolate male space?

Frustration and anger taken out against the convenient target of a worm farm.

A fictional story based on my father's letters, as an 18 year old contemplating mortality as he faces the upcoming WWII draft.

A second foray into the funeral industry.  Lessons learned from Part 1.

Tangling with the funeral industry

What the NFL draft can teach us about our political system

Honey Mousse brings back memories of Sunday lunches with Granny.

My son wants to know.

My efforts to be the good daughter.

At age 65, how many bras will last me the rest of my life?

The beauty of gallstones

Inspiration from King Tut

 Song parody of "It's a Gift to be Simple."  Not to everyone's taste, but hell, we've all been there!

It is very difficult to keep up with the New Yorker!

The eternal stigma of schoolyard shame

Somehow these all made sense.

Look skyward for wonder and awe

The pleasures, surprises and etiquette of subway commuting

Taking the Beatles fictional characters (Rocky Racoon) to the next level

Lessons from the master

To start of join a table at dinner.

An impulse purchase at the big box store

Ruminations and insights on writing 1,000 identical voter reminder postcards.

Exploring strategies for the game Two Truths and a Lie.  What is a believable lie and an unbelievable truth?

The SexAt is proposed as a new SAT prep book with real world math and reading comprehension questions.

Part 2 of a three part series.

The first in a three part series.  

A few tips from a midwestern prairie dweller where ticks are a fact of life.  

There are some 63,000 to chose from, but this one is the most memorable.

The blackbird and I share a sense of futility.

A late in life attempt to be a hockey goalie, despite not knowing how to skate backwards.

Fictional story of the early days of Gideon's bibles, prompted by the Beatles song Rocky Racoon, where Rocky "checked into a room, only to find Gideon's bible."