Ernie Witham writes the humor column “Ernie’s World” for the Montecito Journal in Santa Barbara, California. He is the author of two humor books and his work has been published in many anthologies including more than a dozen Chicken Soup for the Soul books. He leads humor workshops and is on the permanent faculty of the Santa Barbara Writers Conference. He has one wife, two children, three stepchildren and three grandchildren, providing him plenty of fodder.
- FREE Lunch! (April 2012)
- Happy Big Night Day (November 2017)
- Spanish Jeopardy! (August 2017)
- An Apple a Day? (July 2017)
- How Black is Black? (June 2017)
- Rocks, Camels and RVs, Oh My! (May 2017)
- Spirit of California Gold Country (March 2017)
- Yippee Ki-yay (February 2017)
- Lost in Funkzonia (January 2017)
- A Tale of Retail (December 2016)
- Volcanoes, Condors and Bats, Oh My! (November 2016)
- Hidden Gem (October 2016)
- Humor Robots? (August 2016)
- Aliens Have Taken My Brain (July 2016)
- As FREE as the Wind Blows! (May 2016)
- A Working Vacation (April 2016)
- Whose Name Is It Anyway? (March 2016)
- Tube Be or not Tube Be (February 2016)
- Big Island. Big Worries. (January 2016)
- A New Me Coming Soon (December 2015)
- Mo' Better Golf (December 2015)
- Simple Is as Simple Does (November 2015)
- TV or Not TV? That Is the Question (November 2015)
- Signs of the Times (September 2015)
- Exercising My Rights - and Lefts (August 2015)
- The Amazing (I lived) Race (July 2015)
- Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go (June 2015)
- Living Like a One-percenter (May 2015)
- There's No Business Like Snow Business (April 2015)
- In Search of the Pygmies (March 2015)
- Stairway to Heaven? (February 2015)
- Getting High in Paris (January 2015)
- Back in My Day... (December 2014)
- Paris, City of Light...and Tourists (December 2014)
- Besides the Capitol Crypt... (November 2014)
- We Came, We Saw, We Conquered... Thanksgiving! (November 2014)
- Tunnel Vision (October 2014)
- The Perils of Column Writing (September 2014)
- Trying to Keep My Eye on the Prize (August 2014)
- My New Office (July 2014)
- A Wagon Tale (June 2014)
- Water Day Indeed (May 2014)
- The Pit and the Petunia (March 2014)
- Retirement Trainee (February 2014)
- Imagining 2014 (January 2014)
- O Christmas Shrub, O Christmas Shrub... (December 2013)
- Let the Holidays Begin! (November 2013)
- Miles to go before we Zzzzzzzzzzzzz (October 2013)
- Oh Canada! (October 2013)
- Mr. Responsibility (August 2013)
- Lesson of the Day (June 2013)
- I Can See Clearly Now the Pain is Gone... (May 2013)
- Memorable Day Weekend (May 2013)
- Another Day in Suburbia (March 2013)
- Super Birthday Bowl Day (February 2013)
- Resolutions Version 2.013 (January 2013)
- Artificial Unintelligence (December 2012)
- My Kingdom for a Wheat Thin (November 2012)
- United We Wait (October 2012)
- Just want to be... Stuck in the middle with you... (August 2012)
- Men With Wieners and the Women Who Love Them (July 2012)
- It's All Neanderthal Man's Fault (June 2012)
- The Grass Is Always Greener (April 2012)
- The Power of Suggestion (April 2012)
- Gains and Loses (September 2012)
- Led Zeppelin and the Elephant Seals (May 2012)
- French-capades (April 2012)