Rose Mula
Rose Mula was an executive assistant, a public relations specialist, and an operations manager for a New England theater chain before discovering a passion for writing. She has written business and trade articles to earn a living, and humor for the fun of it.
Her work has appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, Yankee, Modern Maturity, The Christian Science Monitor, The Reader's Digest, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Baltimore Sun, and more than a hundred other magazines and newspapers. Actually-thousands of newspapers, since one of her essays, The Stranger in My Mirror (originally titled, The Stranger in My House), was reprinted in Ann Landers' nationally syndicated column in 1999, without Rose's byline. Ms. Landers explained that she had received it from her cousin in Phoenix and wanted to share it with her readers even though she didn't know the author. When Rose left a phone message for her, Landers returned the call personally, with gracious compliments and apologies, and she promptly printed an attribution.
Meanwhile, Rose did some sleuthing and found her Stranger running rampant (and nameless) on dozens of websites, all but one of which claimed no prior knowledge of the author but were happy to hear from her and add her name. The exception was the owner of a site who claimed she had had the story for over twenty years. Not true, Rose pointed out, because in the essay she mentioned VCRs, which were very rare back then, and ATMs, which didn't exist for years later.
Rose never was able to identify the original kidnapper who stole her Stranger away. A couple of years before, her hometown newspaper, The Andover Townsman, published it. She assumes that a reader scanned it, without her byline, and started the whole distribution chain by emailing it to a friend who decided to share it with other cyber pals. And the saga continues to this day, the Stranger is still popping up in e-mails across the nation. Rose wishes she herself can achieve the same immortality. Meanwhile, she can reached by e-mail.
Rose Mula's most recent book,The Beautiful People and Other Aggravations, is now available at your favorite bookstore, through Amazon.com and other online bookstores, and through Pelican Publishing (800-843-1724), as is her previous book, If These Are Laugh Lines, I'm Having Way Too Much Fun.
Check out Rose's new YouTube video: http://youtu.be/iAsDjwD3j80
Articles
The Stranger in My House
Can You Drown While Surfing the Net?
Born Too Soon?
Clothes Encounters
Three's A Crowd
Free At Last!
The Nursing Home: Haven or Hell?
It Was Here A Minute Ago
You Can't Beat This Deal!
Quiet, Please!
Van Gogh and Me
Like, Whatever...Ya Know
The Good Old Days...Not!
Be It Ever So Humble
Them That Has, Gets
We've Got to Stop Meeting Like This
How I Found God in Limbo-Land
Traveling Light
I Haven't a Thing To Wear
Where is Ponce de Leon When I Need Him?
Last One In's a Scairdy-cat!
I Remember (Il) Papa
Traveling With a Teenager
You Should Have Been Here Last Week!
If You Can't Stand the Heat...Silly Science
Confessions of a Lowbrow
Just What the Doctor Ordered
Where, or Where Have My Brand New Boots Gone?
The US Postal Disservice
I'm Sorry...Do I Know You?
JohnPaul2@Vatican.com
Time Flies
How Great to See You! You Look Marvelous!
If It Sounds Too Good To Be True….
Sex — Now and Then
Strangeville, USA
I've Got a Secret
Computer Hell
Our Special Guest Today Is….
A Curly Head's Complaint
Help! I'm a Prisoner in a Moving Vehicle
I'm Right — You're Wrong
Hell on Wheels
Give Me the Simple Life
Insomnia: More Hazardous Than You Think
The Movie Star and Me or, Beauty and the Geek
Have You Ever had One of Those Days?Open, Sesame!
My Amazing Journey
Bon Appetite!
Give Me a Break!
A Coward's Lament
Give Me Strength
How Mickey Mouse Saved My Life — And Vice Versa
Diet Is a Four-Letter Word
Animal Rights and Wrongs
Piano BluesAnd the Oscar Goes To
EEEEK! Are We Having Fun Yet?
Lucky at Last!
How to Put Off Until Never What You Should Have Done Last Week
Be My Guest
Shut My Mouth — Please!
Weather or Not
Self-Improvement or Self-Delusion?
Where Are You When We Need You, Cary Grant?
Can You Hear Me Now?
How Come?
'Til Death Do Us Part ... Or Not
What's In A Name?
The Buzz About Bees
The Beautiful People
The Book Tour — An Author's Dream (or Nightmare?)
Happy New Year!
A Time To Be Born and A Time To Die
Slim Down? Fat Chance!
The Secret in the Freezer (and Other Scandals)
Congratulations! You're a Winner!
The Travel Bug Will Bite You If You Don't Watch Out
The Curse of the Purse
The Stormy Road to Publication
Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Mo
The Attack of the Vengeful Veggies
Aiding and Abetting
Don't Mess With Mother Nature
Whatever Happened to .... ?
A Moving Experience
Do You Believe That Outfit?
Who's That Old Fogey Who Claims to Be Me?
Who is Simon? And What Does He Say?
Paranoia, Paul Newman, and Other Pet Peeves
Where Have They Gone?
But Wait! There's More!!
Beyond My Wildest Dreams!
What Will They Think of Next?
L’Antico, the Sicilian Confucius
iPod — Do You?
The Woes of a Single Humor Writer
Those New Car Shopping Blues
Nancy (Drew, that is) and Me
The Holiday Hustle Hassle
I Love You ... What's Your Name?
The Big Cover-Up
Stop the Harassment!
Insecurities — Past and Present
A Cable Calamity
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Too Much of a Good Thing
Friendship
Confessions of a Domestically-Challenged Homemaker
I'll Never Understand
Can That Stranger With the Suitcase Be Me?
New Year's Peeve!
Wanted: Celebrity Parents
I'm Going to Get Organized One of These Days
The Tax Man Cometh
And Now a Word From Our Sponsor
Things I Wish I Could Say
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
The War on Elderly Drivers
A Sudsy Saga
Progress — You Gotta Love It!(Or Not)
The Clutter Killer
New Year's Peeve
The Power of Words
The Case for Vegetarianism — Or Not
Diary of a Would-Be AthleteSenior Women Web Interview with Julie Harris
Review: A Life In Letters; Ann Landers' Letters to Her Only Child
