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I recently heard an interview with the actor Anthony Hopkins on NPR radio, during which he said, "Whatever God is has a great sense of humor." I totally agree!

Despite its tragedies, my life has been–to a large extent–very funny. For instance, when I met up with an angel a few years ago, it wasn’t in a church and he didn’t wear wings. Nope, he was waiting for me in a Kinko’s copy shop (and he was a great Xerox-er!)

One of the humorous incidents that seems to happen to people with regularity might be described as "the switcheroo."
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Whitley and I recently slept on a bad bed in an utterly beautiful B & B in San Francisco, where we went for a book signing. Our room in this lovely old home was exquisitely decorated, but came with a bad mattress, which just goes to show, I guess, that beauty is only skin deep.

This sent us on a search for a good chiropractor, and I’m glad to say we finally found one. I was amused by something he told me, however.

First I want to say that I recently had an osteoporosis scan as part of my annual physical from my regular G.P., who told me, "You have the bones of an NFL linebacker." Well, that’s good, I thought–one less problem I can check off my list.
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I’ve been having "conversations" lately with a month-old baby who lives nearby. I at first tried singing lullabies to him, but he’s too feisty to lie still and listen–he flails his arms, he kicks his legs, he burps, he poots, he poops.

I’ve found that this new baby likes to listen to me talk to him. I look right into his eyes and smile as I verbalize, and sometimes he coos back to me a little, trying in his own small way to join in the conversation.

He’s just starting to smile a little. Smiling is one of the very first social skills we learn and we learn how special it is when someone smiles back at us.
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We recently returned from a conference in Phoenix. Like most UFO conferences, it was a combination of the grand and the goofy. There were people who gave wise talks about serious, well-thought-out theories, while other people, wearing white doctors’ coats, took people who thought they might be contactees into a booth where they shone a black light over their skin in order to locate implants.

Something else that always happens at these conferences happened to me again: I heard some extraordinary stories. People came up to me and said, "I have something to tell you," and some of them REALLY DID.
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