MY LAME anxiety about the time remaining on my 65-year-old actuarial table got some welcome news this week. I had checked the U.S. government mortality tables for males age 65 and learned that I’ve got another 16.3 years. I’m gonna raise some kind of hell during that .3.
Then I had a big longevity breakthrough! First, researchers announced that people who laugh frequently live seven years more than folks who rarely manage a smile.
Whew!
Good news for me! I’m a laughing fool. Constantly. In the car. In the tub. In the shower.
Mine is a rumbling, belly-shaking laugh that begins deep somewhere down around my pancreas and
Tennessee Ernie Ford
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