A discussion on the Mayo Clinic website offers some commonplace bits of humor to bring a smile when under stress. Here are a few of them:
“When life gives you lemons, just add vodka!”
Laughter in the Oval Office: Presidents and the Healing Power of a Well-Timed Joke
Faced with crises at home and abroad, presidents found that brevity and wit could lighten the weightiest office in the nation.
Humor has helped presidents navigate criticism, exhaustion, and the pressures of leadership. George Bush Presidential Library and Museum/NARA
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
