LATHAM, N.Y. â Almost everyone knows the saying âIf life is a bowl of cherries, why is my life the pits?â Too, most people will recognize the title âThe Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank.â
Perhaps the line, âIf you canât make it better, you can laugh at itâ is the most relative to todayâs world.
However, you probably have to be of a certain age to identify the writer. She is Erma Bombeck, the newspaper columnist who died in 1996. In her day, which was 1965-1996, Bombeckâs humor pieces ran in over 900 newspapers with an estimated readership of 30-million people. She also had 15 best-selling books to her credit.