Chris Erskine: In a year of trauma, finally some laughter and tears of joy
by Los Angeles Times
Sep 17, 2019
3 minutes
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My son's laugh makes me laugh. Lately, he's into these Bob Menery Instagram posts, audacious takes on sports in the language of a locker room.
His late mother would never approve. But a huge laugh is a huge laugh - better than aspirin or Valium or Scotch. Better than a sloppy kiss. Almost better than family or eternal friendship, the two best things we know.
Huge laughs have always been my morphine drip. That my son and his knucklehead
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