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"Your column is the best part of the Sunday paper. I read it before I memorize the sports section. Please don't tell anyone, or they may revoke my gender privileges."

Scott Baldwin

"You are a wonderfully imaginative, playful, literate and creative writer. Don't stop."

Lex Crane

"Thanks for making me giggle the cereal milk out my nose every week."

Amy Hanek

"Thank you for your wonderful sense of humor and insight into being a woman and a mother!"

Susan Featherstone

"Your column had me in fits of laughter."

Marjorie Wass

"I look forward to hearing from you Sundays. Your subject matter and prose are marvelous. As a former reporter for the Associated Press, I am picky!"

Jill Peacock

"You have a knack for writing about what I am thinking."

Christina O'Toole

"Thanks for your column this morning — I found it, as usual, refreshing and thought-provoking. You are a real treasure to this paper and to our community."

John Ise

"I just picked myself up off the floor from laughing so hard at your latest column."

Sarah Sinclair

"You never fail to make me smile! Keep up the great work. I look forward to your columns."

Mark Howell

"Consider yourself the Carrie Bradshaw of married suburbanite housewives!"

Anna Prober

"I continually marvel at how clever and on target you are."

Nancy Warren

"In all of your writings a truth lies behind the humor."

Carol Taber

"I'm not really one to read the newspaper, but I always end up reading your column. I love the humor you see in everyday things."

Risa Erskine

"Thank you for delivering life lessons on a platter of laughter."

Daryl Metzger

"I'm an at-home father of four who just recently came across your columns, which I enjoy very much. I've come away from each one more informed than when I went in, and I like your sense of humor."

Mark Kemp

"Oh, how you pull the heart strings ... and tell it EXACTLY how it is."

Alan Hopkinson

"You always make me laugh just when I need it."

Rich Hoag


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