There are only two secrets to a slimmer shape ... High heels and shoulder pads!

Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.

Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens.

The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.

Food ... love ... mother ... career ... Live every day to the fullest. Partake of the four basic guilt groups.

In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.

I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.