What is the author's style in If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? by Erma Bombeck?

Bombeck writes from a very personal perspective, aiming to entertain the reader with the humor and her own perception of particular activities and events. This is effective in that the book is written—and meant to read—as a series of personal essays. For the majority of the book, Bombeck is writing as mother and wife. When Bombeck turns her perspective to that of the daughter of an aging mother and as a mother of children who are quickly finding their own ways in the world, she grows more introspective.