Liza Blue Humorist

My Life in Stockings

From stockings to pantyhose to knee highs, a fashion review.

Hard Boiling It

Ten years ago I wrote a crime fiction novel featuring my detective Liza Blue.  How does her wit and wisdom compare to the icons in the genre – Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe and Kinsey Millhone?

Pandemic Ponderings Heinous Division

“In the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.”

Pandemic Ponderings: Sports Edition

In this season of pandemic-induced change, I offer some suggestion on how to revamp our major sports.

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.