(Editor’s Note: Bonnie Jean Feldkamp's essay about Erma Bombeck in Fast Famous Women is reposted here by permission. For the Erma writing community, she also offers a behind-the-scenes view of the ...

Glacier Restaurant Group has purchased Max & Erma’s from American Blue Ribbon Holdings and plans to revitalize the struggling casual-dining chain, the company said Monday. The news comes just a week ...

"If a woman is ever to have an affair, it will be in March," columnist Erma Bombeck wrote in 1970. "Psychologically, it is a perfect month. The bowling tournaments are over. The white sales on bedding ...

The Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop has been dubbed the "Woodstock of Humor" and a "utopia" for writers — one "that only appears every other year, out of the mist, on the edge of the Great Miami River ...

Max & Erma’s closed 13 restaurants — or about 19 percent of its system — this week as part of an effort by its parent company to streamline operations in a brand revitalization effort. Employees were ...