Ever since I successfully parlayed my fourth grade spelling words into an award-winning story for my school's "I Can Write Contest," I have had the writing bug (and also the award bug, if I must be honest). So it made perfect sense that I would toss my hat into the ring for the 2014 Erma Bombeck Writing Competition. After all, Erma is famously from Dayton and was also told, "You can write." Before entering the contest I became a student of the event. I read winning entries from years past , I Googled around to try and find out past judges and I worked hard on my entry. There is actually a category for Dayton area writers and I enjoyed some fun Facebook smack-talking with Jenny Rapson of Momminitup and Natasha Baker of Dance Love Sing Live about how we were going to TAKE this thing. Except we didn't. It turns out that the winning Dayton entries for the past two programs have both been about BOOGERS. And sadly, I failed to write about boog
My crazy life as a farm wife, mother, and corporate flack.