| Erma Bombeck made it look so easy. So do Dave | | | | hip bones anyway? I'm over forty - finally! (It |
| Barry, Patrick McManus and a host of other great | | | | takes a while for a woman to get over turning |
| humorists. But despite the ease with which they | | | | forty). However, when I looked in the mirror this |
| make us laugh, writing humor is tough. Humor is | | | | morning, my reflection gave a whole new |
| also subjective. What might cause one person to | | | | meaning to the term gross anatomy. A shock |
| fall off their chair laughing might make another | | | | such as this is bound to wipe away one's last |
| person groan and stop reading, or worse yet, it | | | | vestige of humor. This would have been a good |
| might even make them angry. (That's the funny | | | | time for a reality check, but mine got lost in the |
| thing about humor, not everyone has a sense of | | | | mail."Life stinks," I said aloud to no one in particular. |
| it.)Most humor writers are relatively happy people. | | | | "What's funny about that?" I decided to throw |
| They are well adjusted and they have learned to | | | | myself a sorrow soiree and go for a walk in the |
| take the bad things in life and find a little humor in | | | | rain. I grabbed my umbrella and stomped out the |
| them. That is no small task and it keeps getting | | | | door.As I walked in the rain, splashing through |
| more difficult as time goes by. We wring our | | | | mud puddles and thoroughly soaking my tennis |
| hands over global warming, a hole in the ozone, | | | | shoes, a car approached from the opposite |
| and cellulite. Gasoline prices keep soaring, The | | | | direction. Just then a squirrel scurried from a tree |
| Bush Administration's popularity keeps lowering | | | | and into the street. The driver swerved toward |
| and job security is about as easy to find as a | | | | me to avoid hitting the squirrel. I dived for the |
| needle in a haystack. Some days, life just seems | | | | curb just in time to avoid the tires, but not the |
| to hit the fan and there is no humor left... It | | | | spray of water. The squirrel stopped only long |
| disappeared with our government health | | | | enough to give me a scornful look, then he was |
| benefits.Today was that way. I awakened with a | | | | gone. This was the proverbial straw. I sat down |
| terrible case of PMS (Plotting My Story), my dog | | | | on the sodden sidewalk, put my chin in my hands |
| gave me flea-bite-us, the rain kept pouring | | | | and burst into laughter. Yes...laughter. that seemed |
| down...inside the house... through a hole in the roof. | | | | the only logical thing to do.I sat there for awhile |
| One of the arms fell off the sofa, the kids broke | | | | pondering the ways of life and finally things began |
| another window, and some moron kept calling my | | | | to take focus. No matter how bad a situation |
| cell phone trying to order a pizza. After several | | | | seems at the time, it could always be a lot worse. |
| attempts to convince him that "No this is NOT | | | | Perhaps it is this philosophy that helps the great |
| Pizza Hut," I gave up and took his order.Through it | | | | humor writers of today, continue to make us |
| all, I kept up a brave attempt at writing a humor | | | | laugh. Perhaps they posses a more profound |
| piece on time management. I rattled my brains, | | | | understanding of human nature. Even though we |
| trying to shake loose a few witticisms, while | | | | may think laughter has deserted us, we can |
| visions of pizza and chocolate cream filled donuts | | | | always find another chuckle or two buried |
| danced in my head.I have tried to ignore the slight | | | | somewhere beneath the anxiety and stress of |
| overhang around my chair and the way my jeans | | | | daily life.Often we just need to dig a little deeper |
| are pinching my waistline. Still I keep hearing that | | | | to find the humor in life. So what, if we may need |
| ugly four-letter word "diet"! It buzzes in my ear | | | | to use a backhoe sometimes? We'll find it if we |
| like the announcement of a blue-light special at | | | | just keep digging.Leeuna Foster has been writing |
| K-Mart.I swore off dieting six months ago. After | | | | for two decades. Her fiction and poetry have won |
| two months of eating nothing but weeds and | | | | several awards. She is also a regular contributer |
| roots, I gave up one night, fell to my knees upon | | | | to StoryTime Tapestry and a syndicated |
| the kitchen floor, threw down the radish I was | | | | columnists. Her latest book, Hangin' With the |
| gnawing on and raised my fist in the air. In my | | | | Rednecks is now available in print or in ebook |
| best Southern accent I proclaimed "As God is my | | | | form. Visit her website for details on how to |
| witness, I'll never be hungry again!"Why do I need | | | | purchase your copy...don't wait for the movie! |