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A Bigger Brick Wrapped in Humor
"I've never once seen anybody die from laughing too much, but I've known plenty of people who were dying inside because they'd stopped."
A family once asked Mark Gregston to join them for dinner because the mood in their home had gone flat. They sat down to eat in dead silence. Nobody said a word, and you couldn't even hear the forks. Mark asked the mom why it was so quiet. Her answer: "We don't allow any laughter at the dinner table." Most families would never say that out loud, but plenty of homes live by it: keep it serious, keep it quiet. Those are exactly the homes where grandkids would…
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