We’ve heard that laughter is the best medicine, and research offers some tangible examples. According to recent studies, laughing significantly benefits our physical and mental health, helping us feel better all around. Let’s look at how laughing every day makes us healthier. Psychologically, laughing can improve mood almost immediately and lower stress and anxiety. Physically,…

Mass hysteria is a term used to describe the situation in which physical or psychological symptoms appear en masse, spreading rapidly throughout communities, and occasionally across whole cities and countries. During an outbreak, afflicted individuals may experience uncontrollable laughter, fainting, fits, dizziness, muscle weakness, or any number of other symptoms that do not appear to…

Saturday nights were a very special night in our house when I was 16. It was a difficult time: my mother was dying of breast cancer, and there was very little laughter or humor during that last summer in 1973—except for Saturday nights at 9 p.m. That’s when “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” was on….

Go ahead and giggle or sneak a snicker if you want. Don’t cork a chortle or choke a chuckle that you should flaunt. Why not? Your bellowed amusement is more than a delight for you, it can be a blessing to those who hear it. For ages, human beings have known that laughter has healing…

Sometimes, life doesn’t go the way you plan.