When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home

Description: The popular humorist offers tips and truisms on travel, discussing oddly named food, Asian bus drivers in Germany, plumbing around the world, and more. About the Author Erma Bombeck, one of the most popular newspaper columnists in the United States and the author of numerous bestselling books, died in San Francisco on Monday, April 22, 1996 from complications following a kidney transplant earlier in the month. Bombeck had been ill for some time. In 1992, after she underwent a mastectomy, her kidneys failed and she began dialysis at her home in Arizona. She suffered from polycystic kidney disease, a hereditary complaint. Even with her illness, Bombeck continued her weekly schedule of housework, her source for the hilarious columns and books for which she was widely loved. "My type of humor is almost pure identification," she once told The New York Times. "A housewife reads my columns and says, 'But that's happened to me! I know just what she's talking about!' "If I didn't do my own housework, then I have no business writing about it. I spend 90 percent of my time living scripts and 10 percent writing them." Erma Bombeck's books include Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession, which spent an entire year in the Number One spot on The New York Times bestseller list; Family: The Ties That Bind...and Gag!; If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?; I Want to Grow Hair, I Want to Grow Up, I Want to Go to Boise; When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home, which was a New York Times bestseller and the sixth biggest selling nonfiction book of 1991; and A Marriage Made in Heaven...Or Too Tired for an Affair. There are over twenty million copies of Erma shelved, and her thrice-weekly syndicated columns reached an estimated thirty million readers every week. Bombeck was a regular on ABC-TV's Good Morning America for eleven years. She holds fifteen honorary doctorates, has been named to the list of the 25 Most Influential Women in America by the World Almanac since 1979, and was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to the President's Advisory Committee for Women when it was formed in 1978. She is survived by her husband, William Bombeck, her mother, Erma Harris, and her three children. Product details Publisher : HarperTorch; Reprint edition (December 5, 1992)Language ‏ : ‎ English Paperback: 288 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0061099813ISBN-13 : 978-0061099816ASIN: 0061099813UPC: 099455005999, 9780061099816 I make every effort to ship your item the day after it is paid for. Items paid for after 6 a.m. EST will ship the following business day. Items paid for after 6 a.m. EST on Friday will ship on Monday. Please stop by and check out all of my items available for sale at All Things Considered 07. I gladly combine shipping on all items. Place all desired items in your cart then select request total from seller. I will send you a combined invoice with the adjusted shipping charges. Please feel free to contact me with any other shipping questions. Items ordered with International First Class Mail as a shipping option are subject to a maximum of 45 days transit time. Tracking information on these items will not be updated once they leave the United States. I recommend choosing Priority Mail for all of your International Shipping needs, as the expected transit time is only 6-10 business days. I gladly combine shipping on all items. Combined shipping will be negotiated on a case by case basis. Please contact me with all other shipping questions. And, as always, thank you for shopping with Leftover_from_Love and All Things Considered 07. Have a GREAT EBAY DAY! Software and video games can be returned for a full refund of purchase price within 30 days of purchase. Returned software or video games that are activated, used, damaged or missing parts will incur up to a 100% restocking fee. Returns must be requested within 14 days of delivery. Please note this is not business days -- returns may be requested on weekends/holidays. Returns must be shipped back no later than 20 days after delivery. Items returned for the following reasons: Ordered by mistake, changed mind, didn't fit, not as expected, no longer needed, better price available, and items returned after the return period has expired (at seller's discretion) will have a restocking fee of up to but not to exceed 20%. Original shipping will not be refunded. Return shipping will be paid by the buyer.

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