Family members have told me since college “you should write a column like Erma” . . . Erma Bombeck that is. I would look at them like they were crazy, which in my family is not far off the mark, and continue to write letters and then emails keeping everyone up to date on where in the world I was and what the hell I was doing.  (I can hear my aunt’s voice now asking my mother, “What the hell’s Rach doing now?”) Then one day I woke up, and I needed to write.  There was this little story inside my head.  Really, it was a character, and try as I might this little character’s (the Dust Bunny) story just couldn’t get out of my head. Years later, a few months after starting my third divorce, it felt as if there were a ton of ping pong balls bouncing in my head, each one a story, bouncing around trying to escape.  I picked up a pen and started to write every story as it bounced into my head.  That was the birth of The Disfunctional Diva website.  A little place to hold all my flash fiction – my little stories – for all the world to see … whether anyone else read them or not. I had already written and animated Basic Money Management 101 as a business endeavor.  Which, by the way, is used in a number of Kansas and Missouri schools and was also picked up by KSU for incoming freshman orientation.  But, that summer while driving my kids to camp, the story of the Dust Bunny – Louie Fights the Night – finally wrote itself in my head.  How To Train A Woman, my second book was published August 2011.  Now, I have 6 books under by belt and I am feeling completely blessed.