Issue 9 | August, 2021
Newsletter
Women are the storytellers of the family. Our blog allows us to share our stories with people all over the world.

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If you are not interested in joining the class, but love to write, we are happy to have guest bloggers send us their stories. Email holli@myerberg.org if you would like to be a guest blogger.
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Here are some pet/animal related stories from our blog:
My Life with Pets
We didn’t have furry pets when I was a child. When my sister Margo asked for a dog (she would have been happy with a pony, too), Mom said, “No.” The excuse was that mom worked and had no time to take care of a pet. Additionally, we traveled two to three weeks in the summer. Pets were not a part of the family equation.
Man’s Best Friend
John Banzhaf was a lawyer at a high end law firm in New York City. He was against smoking and wanted to get cigarette commercials off the air. The problem was his firm represented Phillip Morris. Needless to say, he needed to find a new job, which he did at George Washington University law school teaching consumer law. 
My Story of Pets
We lived in a home with a mom who loved animals. When we were kids, my brother, Richard and I wrote a fun song for our mother for one of her birthdays. It went like this:

Then we began to name all the pets and their sounds. You know the song.

“Old Mrs. Berman had a home / E.I. E.I. O! / And in her home she had some pets / E.I. E.I. O!”
Divine Intervention?
Mom grew up in South Dakota and had little sympathy for Baltimore County snow days. She trekked to school in major snow drifts and wind. School was only canceled if the temperature reached a frigid 40° below (so she claimed).