Laughter is the Best Medicine

Last month, writer Kim Smith presented me with an Honest Scrap Award. I then gave out a few of these awards to some terrifically honest bloggers I know, Christie, Heidi, Mee, and Myrthe.  Now I'd like to pass along two more of these awards, one to Nora Ephron and one to Jenny McCarthy, who've each written a book which brims with honesty.  These women are both also very funny--thank goodness!  I've just read I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman, by writer/director Nora Ephron, and Belly Laughs: The Naked Truth about Pregnancy and Childbirth, by comedienne Jenny McCarthy. Both authors get down to the nitty gritty about their subjects, aging and pregnancy, respectively, and both approach their topics with a great deal of (necessary) humor.  Without humor, these books would cast readers into deep, abysmal depressions.   Perhaps I should also give one of these awards to Marjane Satrapi for Embroideries, an outrageous graphic novel, which depicts, in cartoon form, the secrets women have about sex, men, and life.