Gosh. Ten years ago I was the co-creator and Editor-in-Chief of an award-winning monthly satire zine, the wife of my first darling husband, the mother of three babies aged 10, 6, and 3, a resident of Fresno, California, I had a size F rack…and, I was, as evidenced by the photograph below, a gloriously contented cigarette smoker.
Lots and lots has changed since then — though much also remains the same. I now live and write in Los Angeles, my work is still deeply satisfying, I am blissfully married to my true love, Gregory, I am sportin’ the perkiest B size titties you ever saw, and the eldest of those three little babies will turn 20 tomorrow! My life is more astonishing in the now — if that’s even possible — and it just keeps getting more amazing every day. What a fine adventure it is that I have the privilege of living! Even taking into account the chronic and debilitating disease with which I live, and the earthshattering loss of my precious little sister, I still definitely consider myself one of the luckiest people I know. I thank the gods for all my blessings.
Oh, and I no longer smoke.
From the April 1997 masthead of Fresno Lampoon:
About muffybolding
Muffy Bolding is a mother/writer/actor/knitter/feminist/withered debutante who likes the smell of asparagus pee, and remains obsessed with the bathroom hygiene of her three children -- despite the fact that they are 23, 19, and 16. She is blissfully married to a cute Jewish boy who looks like Willie Wonka, but remains tragically in love with the dead poet, Ted Hughes. She has the mouth of a Teamster, and her patron saint is Rocco (pestilence relief.) Ms. Bolding lives in Southern California, where she enjoys typing words, making movies, and plucking the rings from the fingers of the dead. She was the co-creator and Editor-in-Chief of the award winning satire zine, Fresno Lampoon, and in between writing screenplays, carnival barking, and savagely threatening her trio of darling larvae with a wooden spoon, she currently publishes the zine, "Withered Debutante." More of her work can also be found in the anthology, "Mamaphonic: Balancing Motherhood and Other Creative Acts", the compilation zine, "Mamaphiles III: Coming Home", as well as in The Cortland Review and hipmama.com. She is currently writing and producing for film and television, and working on a book of essays entitled, "Inside A Chinese Dragon." She has slept around, but not nearly as much as she would have liked.
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