Nora Ephron’s newer books “I Remember Nothing” and “I Feel Bad About my Neck" ring true for those of us who read her books since the 1970s, and now find that we’ve aged along with her, until her recent death earlier this year (2012). Through the years, her work continues to combine self-deprecating humor with in-your-face facts about many of life’s annoyances.

In this re-issue, you’ll enjoy her opinions on everything of interest to women. She tackles feminism, fantasies, politics and society. Only a few pieces seem dated, such as “The Girls in the Office” where women were sometimes objectified or victimized by men in the corporate world of the seventies.

During the era of consciousness raising, in 1973, Ephron was part of a group formed to help women recognize oppression in their lives. Her humor especially shines when covering an event as a journalist, while candidly offering her own point of view, such as the piece on the hilarious reality of covering the Pillsbury Bake-Off.

The essays in "Scribble, Scribble" leave us missing Ephron’s point-blank honesty, attacking and poking fun at everyone and everything that caught her attention, and she always did, with a humor that never dies.

Since both "Crazy Salad" and "Scribble Scribble" were long out of print, with this re-issue, Nora Ephron leaves us with a nice cultural history of the second half of the 20th century.

Even after her death, her essays remind us to laugh at ourselves and to speak the truth.