Ha! That's a Good One!
by Charlotte Bennardo Photo by Gabriela Frank, Pexels. Humor is always in included in my writing. A relative once told me that I should do a stand-up comedy gig. Now I don't think I'm funny enough to do even one comedic night, but I have my moments. Funny enough (get that?), the more stressed I am, the funnier I get. I could have won an award for humor when I was undergoing a breast biopsy while pregnant with my second son. I had the whole operating room in stitches. After a clean report (no cancer, just a cyst and tumor together, yay I was a notation in a medical journal! Fame!), all my jokes dried up. Humor isn't just for laughing, for having a good time. It can be used to diffuse tense situations, to help us through a difficult situation. There are those lines in movies, like in Armageddon, where Bruce Willis, who's elected to stay behind and detonate the nuclear bomb to destroy the asteroid before it destroys Earth & humanity, says: "Well, this wasn...
