While Kathleen George may be a professor and Edgar-nominated author, she is also a self-professed ditz. In a recent guest post on The Lipstick Chronicles, she explains why that is actually be a good thing: “There’s so much pressure on women these days to be well-oiled machines, strong, tough, competent — anything but a ditz. But isn’t there grace in ditziness, too? Sometimes we just need to collapse into zany, innocent, and gullible puddles of good will.”

Click here to read some very amusing stories of how Kathy’s inner Gracie Allen got her into — and out of — some sticky situations.