Ann Bancroft

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.

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Salon.com
Editor’s Pick
MAY 18, 2011 3:22AM

Thanks, Arnold. Really, We're Over It.

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 »

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APRIL 4, 2011 3:02AM

Got to Walk in These Shoes


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 »

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MARCH 31, 2011 3:13AM

She’s Ready for the Moment, Too

Can’t wait till the FDA approves “female Viagra.”  Not for me! No, no, I just want to see the ads.

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 »

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MARCH 28, 2011 6:25PM

How's the Day Treating You? Your Teller Wants to Know

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 cRead full post »