Doris O'Brien is a retired college Speech teacher and banker. She has published two books of humor (Up or Down With Women's Liberation and Humor Me a Little) and for many years contributed light verse to the Pepper 'n Salt column of the Wall Street Journal. She is an avid writer of letters to the editors.
Doris celebrated her 50th wedding anniversary in the same year she welcomed her first grandchild. She now lives in Pasadena with a great view of the San Gabriel mountains — and the annual Tournament of Roses Parade.
She can be reached by e-mail: witsendob at (@) gmail.com
New Credit Card Rules and What Your Credit Card Company Has to Tell You
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Two Studies: Marital Hostility and Change in Spouses’ Depressive Symptoms; Caring for An Ex
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The Libertarian Invasion of the 2010 Conservative Political Action Conference
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An Armchair 'Grand Tour' of Italy, A Room With a View and Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
"If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book. She speaks of her sorrows, in a way that fills us with melancholy, and dissolves us in tenderness, at the same time that she displays a genius which commands all our admiration." more »
