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I grew up in the home of a bookstore manager. You couldn’t walk four steps without stubbing your toe on something from Charles Spurgeon, Mark Twain or William Aloysius Keane—better known as Bil Keane, the creator of Family Circus, the cartoon that appeared each day in our newspaper. I liked Jeffy best. He seemed to…

Whoever said, “May you live in interesting times” certainly got his wish. Thanks to the Coronavirus peace and comfort seem in shorter supply than toilet paper these days. As I write, Ramona and I are self-quarantined and getting along well, I’m happy to report. A minute ago I said, “Honey, you’ve always been there for…

Whoever said, “May you live in interesting times,” got his wish. It’s been quite a time, hasn’t it? My wife and I have been in a self-imposed quarantine which seems to have stretched on for almost a year. We’re down to 379 rolls of toilet paper. It’s tearable. Pardon the ill-placed pun. Today I said,…

I’m told that the most common shoplifted food item is cheese. Shoplifting is never a gouda idea, but when a truck driver had his truck serviced deep in Cheesehead country, Wisconsin, a crook decided to cheese the day, swiping all 20,000 pounds of cheese from the trailer. Where would you store that much cheese? But…

Have you ever been frightened half to death? If you’re frightened half to death twice, what happens? I have three older brothers, so I know a thing or two about fear. My eldest brother used to hide in the dark, jump out and yell at me. So I learned early about fear. And heart attacks.…

I write books with serious titles like, I Used to Have Answers, Now I Have Kids, and Who Put the Skunk in the Trunk? But sometimes I wonder if I would have sold more books with titles like, How to Make a Million Bucks in 3 Hours or 7 Quick Secrets to Understanding Women. Choosing…

Winnie the Pooh said, “My spelling is wobbly; it’s good spelling but it wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. Teachers encounter letters in wrong places on tests and assignments. Here are seven classics from kids. “I didn’t get to sleep much all night because next doors dog was baking.” Well, that kid…

Well, congratulations to us: We just recorded our 1,000th episode of Laugh Again. When we began dreaming of producing a program that would bring a shot of hope to homes across this country, we were told it couldn’t be done. “It’ll get lost in the plethora of alternatives”, they said. But we went for it…

If you’ve heard a child pray, you know that God must smile. A little girl prayed, “Dear God, I need You to make my mom not allergic to cats. I really want a cat and I really don’t want to ask my mom to move out.” A 5-year-old prayed, “Dear God, I hope my dog is…