Many people believe that laughter is the best medicine — it makes us feel good. It is something that we can share with others over great distances, or face to face in crowded spaces.   Guillaume Benjamin Duchenne, a French Neurologist of the 1800s era, first noted the difference between a genuine and spontaneous laugh…

As a youngster, playing with soap bubbles in the backyard, I would try to blow the biggest bubble, just short of making it burst.  I would eye up the bubble and ease off when it looked like it was ready to pop. It worked, most of the time. Back to the present. Most folks that…

At first, I thought that there had been an accident. As I inched my way up the line to the police officer with the flashlight, I realized that I was caught in a RIDE spot check – an Ontario sobriety testing program designed to catch drivers driving under the influence of alcohol. There were flashing…