"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Residing in Somers, New York, with her husband of 65 years, Russ, Ward enjoys reading, wrestling with crossword puzzles and double crostics, baking, knitting, crocheting, and watching endless reruns of "Seinfeld." The German version, Wo Ist Meine Lesebrille (Where Are My Reading Glasses?) proved to be a great success with senior audiences overseas. Her first book, How to Succeed at Aging without Really Dying, published in 2010, a collection of humorous essays, appeared on Amazon's list of the Top 100 Books, all genres, in 2011. Photo above: Lyla Blake Ward in France, 1952. Featuring a 1950 Pontiac, Maurice Chevalier, Edith Piaf, La Tour d’Argent, Lasserre and an endless drizzle. Lyla Blake Ward revisits her first trip to the City of Light. Paris was still coated in post-war grime. Over the past 65 years, she has published numerous works of humorous verse, op-eds, personal essays and social commentary in newspapers and magazines around the country, including Good Housekeeping, The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, Woman's Day, Family Circle, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Christian Science Monitor and Newsday, among many others. Lyla Blake Ward - SeptemThe year was 1952. Lyla Blake Ward's writing career officially began in 1949, when she sold her first poem to Collier's magazine: Betrayal at Plymouth Greasy gizzards, flying feathers Oh the difference it would make, If the Pilgrims had decided To give thanks with sirloin steak.
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