Barbara J. Hamby

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Always Leave Laughing

My dental hygienist said the kindest thing to me today that any of those gals have ever said. Picking at my crooked lower teeth, she remarked about them and I said, “I’ve had them a very long time.” She responded, “And you should have them for a long time yet.” Then she told me about some 110 year-old-man she had heard interviewed. Living to 110 doesn’t much appeal to me unless I could be in excellent health and my children were still living and healthy.

Reading obituaries, as I do when I read the paper--not every day--I notice there seem to be many more people living to extreme ages these days. Most of them cite a sense of humor as a necessary attribute. I think most people like to laugh. Some of us are more humorous than others and I seem to have been fortunate to have people around to make me laugh over many of the last forty or fifty years.

So I think I’d like to change the saying: “Always leave them laughing,” to “Always Leave Laughing.” I hope to do that.