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 Name:
Dixie Frantz
Position: Columnist - You Gotta Laugh
email: dixielaugh@kingwoodcable.com
Biography:
Dixie Frantz has written "You Gotta Laugh," a humorous
newspaper column, for the past 11 years, which has appeared
in 10 newspapers. The column showcases the funny, amusing,
and sometimes touching, slices of life from the suburbs.
Dixie insists it is really her family that is funny.
Dixie has lived all over the United States, moving to
Houston in the middle of her senior year of high school,
where she finally discovered Southern charm and hospitality.
She married a very funny native Houstonian a year out of
high school, and several years later had three hilarious
kids. Her middle child/angel, Mimi, was born with cerebral
palsy. When her youngest finally entered the first grade,
Dixie, at the age of 40, started attending classes at the
local community college. Baking a diploma in a warm oven
from scratch, it took five years to complete a two-year
degree. Dixie took classes while the kids attended school,
studying painful subjects, such as college algebra, biology
and British literature while they slept. It was there she
discovered her love of writing. After completion of a Mass
Communications class, her teacher, and also local newspaper
editor, asked Dixie if she could write "funny." The rest is
history.
Her writing credentials include more than 250 humorous
columns and bunches of feature stories for a host of weekly
newspapers. She is a "Chicken Soup for the Soul"
contributor, has written for a national women's magazine and
contributed a parent column for a disability Web site. Her
humorous ramblings also appear on several online sites.
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