Margo Bartlett | Points in Case

Margo Bartlett Delaware, Ohio

I worked at small newspapers, both daily and weekly, for 25 years. I still write, but the chairs are more comfortable.

Comedy Writing

Henry has been doing our newsletter since 1986. He’s a little set in his ways, but we love him.

You will be a person who, needing more room for books, never once thinks the words “bricks” or “boards.”

You can spend a fortune on a professional decorator, or you can hire us, We Do It With Dogs.

Lethargy, or complanata torporem, meaning “flattened by torpor.” Use this defense when you’re desperately late out the door because it’s a cold.

Uranus: It’s a planet, but you don’t have to mention every last one. Say, “Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Neptune, Mercury, Mars, and so on.”

- Your phone’s insistence that you can’t take pictures until you delete stuff. - Your phone’s refusal to agree that deleting 32 pictures was enough.

- Your resting face just seems to send hostile messages, is all. Are you saying no one has asked about this before? - Seriously?

When a store cashier asks if you found everything you need, it is against the law to say, ''No, I couldn't find granola with almonds and raisins.''

We don’t care about fingernails. Well, we kind of care that they’re clean, but we don’t file, buff, color, or cover them up with fake nails.

I will eat at a restaurant alone, as long as I can tell a friend to show up ten minutes after I’m seated and join me.

Irritable Parent: “I SAID, turn right. Am I doing this for my health? You wanted to get to 1862 Forestway Boulevard North"

Woody and Rayleen Blight / Joyfully announce the recent trade of their / Rusted, two-door Ford F150 for / A 2020 black, full-sized Dodge Ram pickup