Trick or Treat

Trick or Treat
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Laughter Is the Best Medicine
By Deb Palmer

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
~Michael Pritchard

In the early 1990s, Central Washington University was filled with students sporting perfect skin, gel-spiked hair, and high hopes. And then there was me, a single mom pushing forty, striving for a degree that promised to pay the bills.

College life as a mom with a full-time job and a long list of creditors was not exactly social. And I grew used to the groans and eye rolls when the professors would slide me into a group project. I learned to show grace when asked the burning question on my classmates' minds: "How old are you?" (Keep reading)