Lowell T. Christensen : University of Dayton, Ohio

Saturday May 31, 2014

Lowell T. Christensen

Lowell T. Christensen is the winner of the Robert Benchley Society Humor Writing Competition and author of The One-Minute Zillionaire - Achieve Wealth, Fame, and Success in an Instant, Give or Take a Hundred Years. He has kept himself busily occupied as a writer, engineer, rocket scientist, musician, backhoe operator, outdoorsman, chef, rancher and international traveler. His previous books include Coping with Texas and Other Staggering Feets and Beginning Farming and What Makes a Sheep Tick, and he has written magazine articles that feature presidential elections through the theme of Shakespearean plays.

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Laughter and light

(This piece will appear in the summer issue of the University of Dayton Magazine.) It was three days full of belly-laughing, donkey-snorting, mascara-running good times with 350 humor writers from around the country. And there I was, sitting in Sears Recital Hall, trying not to cry. A fellow attendee at UD's biennial Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop had just stood up. Her name was Kate. She had come here from Newtown, Conn. "I was funny and lost my funny," she told us as we rummaged our poc ...

Sore to the core

When I write plays, sometimes I base my characterizations on composites of various people. Other times, I simply cut out a portrait from a magazine or newspaper. As I develop the character, I usually place that image directly in front of me. Today, that technique came to bite me or at least nibble on my noggin. While walking down Seventh Avenue in the Big Apple, the sight of a familiar face flabbergasted me. A man in the maddening crowd bore more than an uncanny resemblance to a serial ra ...

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