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Find Your FunnyBarb Best, 2010 Erma Bombeck Global Humor Winner, has a new book, Find Your Funny: The Humor Survival Guide for Teens. Co-written with Joanne Jackal, Ph.D., a psychotherapist and former stand-up comedienne, Find Your Funny is a humor survival guide for ages 12 and up. This fun guide is designed to help kids develop a robust sense of humor and empower themselves with the positivity of humor. Larry Wilde, declared "America's Best Selling Humorist" by The New York Times, calls Find Your Funny, "The quintessential book on the importance of humor in our lives." No kidding!

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To the small things of marriage

In a couple of weeks, my husband and I will celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary. We've discussed possible plans. I suggested a weekend spent organizing our house. While I believe that one will be vetoed as simply too un-anniversary-like, I'm cool with us not doing it big or giving each other expensive gifts. I have told him as much, and I believe he would like it notarized. I don't blame him. In our dating years, I would have told him this and then expected him to pass my test of ...
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What's in a name? Ask Poppie

I have been called many things in my life, not all of them repeatable in polite company, which I am seldom in anyway. But the one I love to hear repeated is Poppie, which is what I am called by my 2-year-old granddaughter, Chloe. My wife, Sue, who is called nothing but good things, especially by me, because without her I would be a four-letter word ("dead"), is known to Chloe as Nini. I'm glad Sue and I have such wonderful grandparent names because we could have been called a lot worse. I ...
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