They are certain to elicit some smiles, a few chuckles, and maybe a belly laugh or two.
Some of them were published, years ago, on the Postscripts Page of The Saturday Evening Post; some of them in the Pepper and Salt section of The Wall Street Journal; and some of them, including a contest winning limerick, in Arizona, the weekly magazine section of The Arizona Republic: and one in McCalls.
The author has also published more serious verses in the Ensign and The Friend, religious publications, and a book of limericks, Let There be Limericks, a Light Look at the Bible.
The author received a Master of Arts degree from The Rice Institute, now called Rice University, in Houston, Texas. She has taught Latin and French in Anchorage, Alaska; was a newspaper reporter in Tampa, Florida; a library worker in Merritt Island, Florida; and a health clerk in Lompoc, California.
She and her husband, a former Civil Engineer, are retired and live in Utah. They are the parents of two children.