Liza Blue Humorist

Lists: Words to Live By

Short, pithy and to the point, these have been my guiding lights.

Pandemic Ponderings

Pandemic humor.  What makes it funny?

Open Letter to Publishers of the New Yorker

Can I handle a weekly subscription to the New Yorker?  Maybe they could just send me every other one.

My Crepiness

How to find joy in your crepey skin.

The Flies Have It

Here is my sure-fire suggestion to set a scene or provoke a mood.  Add a fly.  And give him human characteristics.

Open Letter to Peg Bracken

The I Hate to Cookbook, published by Peg Bracken in 1960, saved my mother’s life.

The Elegance of the Hexagon

Take a tour of the ubiquitous hexagon, from the humble honeycomb to the 16,000 mile wide hexagon on the surface of Saturn!

My Life in Guinea Pigs

My uneasy relationship with guinea pigs in four chapters.

My Life in Typewriters

Who would have throught that my experience with typewriters would touch on gender politics, boyfriends and the tyranny of the typo!

Dear Lady in the Front Row Who Gasped

Strangers can validate you as a writer.