They’re ugly…they’re freakish…but they’re lovable monsters and they’re funny, too. The journey through the harshness of the pandemic, the willingness to find a way to lighten it up and have a conversation with it…this was my contemplative time with all that isolation. Exploring fear and making choices around it…I was looking for humor in the story, and I found some.

Something I learned recently about humor itself: the term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which taught that the balance of fluids in the human body, known as “humors” controls our health and all our emotions. And there it is…