What Makes Me Laugh

Right now, I’m in need of a good laugh. Just like the weather, I can feel sunny one minute and cloudy the next. A thought can grab me and twist my mind until I get so stressed that I’m ready to fight, flee, or freeze. I know the thought is there because I can feel it in my [...]

My mom first introduced me to Sudoku on a plane trip back from Arizona last spring. She opened her book of puzzles and started speaking in slow, precise tones about the numbers one through nine.  “So, you see, if you put a one here, and then there is one over there, another one should go [...]

Martha, Martha, Martha. Just when I was starting to like you again. The stories of you picking dandelions in the prison yard and leading yoga sessions for the other inmates made me smile and think how plucky and resilient you are when the chips were down. Now, when I need to make apple cobbler or [...]

I don’t hang out that much on YouTube. Perhaps it goes along with my aversion to “reality” television, which couldn’t get any more fake. But my brother-in-law revealed that YouTube holds at least a few more chuckles than I thought, when he called and directed me to search for phrases like, “little girl and monsters” [...]

I added a new page to my blog tonight with links to all of my favorite comedians, writers, and humorists. It’s admittedly still a work in progress, but will get you started finding people that make YOU laugh.