Some of you will know the name Norman Cousins. For many years he was the eminent editor of The Saturday Review. During his last years he served as a faculty member at the UCLA Medical School. He had developed what was considered an incurable disease—and he discovered that laughter was a way that helped. In fact, he convinced some medical folks to include laughter as a part of their treatment programs. As a part of this, there was a particular room in a hospital in Houston, Texas, called the “Living Room.” Any patient entering that room was under strict orders not to talk about his or her illness. Consequently, the conversation was mostly story-telling. There was lots of laughter. Some folks poked fun at his theories and referred to his conclusions as “giggling more important than gargling.…