Ann Bancroft
- Location
- California,
- Birthday
- October 15
- Bio
- I've been a newspaper and wire service reporter, editorial writer, speech writer and communications director. Now I'm writing my own stuff, and have no bosses to blame. I write short fiction and essays about absurd stories I've read in the newspaper and things that rile, amuse or touch my heart.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Yes, There’s a Hole in Your
Bucket
July 28, 2011 01:55AM - Breathe. Be Grateful. Buy
Shirt.
June 22, 2011 02:53PM - He Served, Not Blindly But
Well
May 27, 2011 01:37PM - Thanks, Arnold. Really, We're
Over It.
May 18, 2011 03:22AM - Judgment Day -- What to Wear?
April 27, 2011 03:42AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Another terrific tale,
Jeremiah. Warms my cynical
ex-newsie
heart!”
November 19, 2011 09:25PM - “How precisely and
beautifully you describe the
process that
is writing.
Inspirati…”
September 28, 2011 01:11AM - “Best of luck to you and
your neighbors, Jeremiah.
Hoping your
homes are
dry.
This…”
August 30, 2011 05:19PM - “I'd love to read your
"Second Childhood" collection.
This is
so open
an…”
July 28, 2011 10:16PM - “Cranky, that reminds me
of a wonderful friend and
newspaper
colleague who wrote
o…”
July 28, 2011 10:13PM
Ann Bancroft's Links
I am considering exactly how best to word a thank-you note to Arnold Schwarzenegger for keeping his mouth shut even when he couldn’t keep his pants zipped. Not that I approve – I surely don’t, but whether or not I approve is immaterial. It’s just that, had Arnold not so egregi… Read full post »
This support group thing was never for me. Not once in three years did I sit around a table or on a sofa with women in wigs and terror in their eyes. It was enough to keep my own life together, and sharing the thing that kept trying to rip it… Read full post »
I’ve never been with a man who used Viagra or Cialis (have I?), but according to the incessant commercials, those drugs turn guys into insatiable studs for up to four/… Read full post »
Before there were self-serve checkout counters, Internet shopping and punching “the following menu” to be placed on 20 minutes of musical hold, before we did most of our shopping online, all business and commerce was conducted between live human beings.
You’d hand your cash to a c… Read full post »
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