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(This essay will appear in the University of Dayton Magazine in June 2012.) For three days, we laughed. OK, we howled. So much so that we dubbed the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop the "Woodstock of Humor." But it's not just the sound of laughter I remember from this spring's gathering of 350 writers from around the nation. My eyes closed, I listened to Suzette Martinez Standring's gentle, melodic voice guiding a group of writers through a creative-writing exercise. A trained hypnotherapis ...

Humorist Jerry Zezima has published his second book, The Empty Nest Chronicles. Written with warmth and hilarity, the book will appeal to parents who miss their kids but now have a chance to rediscover each other, to recall what life was like BC (Before Children), and to ask the eternal empty-nester question: Are we having fun yet? Jerry writes a nationally syndicated humor column for The Stamford Advocate (Conn.) and is the author of Leave It to Boomer. ...