title: How'd All These Ping Pong Balls Get in My Bag!? The Stressed-Out Woman's Guide to Letting Go with Laughter
author:  Leigh Anne Jasheway 
description: Leigh Anne Jasheway, M.P.H. (masters of public health / mistress of public humor) has been teaching people to lighten up with laughter for more than fifteen years. Winner of the Erma Bombeck Award for Humor Writing, she knows how to turn everyday stressors, such as a mammogram catching on fire, into laugh-out-loud stories. She speaks at more than 50 conferences a year and has been teaching comedy writing as a life skill for fifteen years.
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  Anne Wilkinson pressed the ![image](../images/box.jpg) button with a right
  middle digit whose confrères were mostly occupied with clutching a paper bag
  containing a hummus-and-sprouts bagel sandwich. She tucked her tall frame into
  the elevator’s back corner without lifting her eyes from the paperback in her
  left hand. Unnoticed, the elevator filled in front of her. New Yorkers one and
  all, no one so much glanced at the attractive young woman, or they’d have
  noticed her eyes narrow, then widen in surprise, followed by her right eyebrow
  rising to Spockian heights as she shook with restrained laughter.
  
  
  When the doors opened on the lobby of Hathaway & Edgecombe, Anne was alone
  again. She wiped some tears from her eyes, tucked the book under her arm, and
  stepped onto the broad oriental carpet.
  
  
  “Hi, Lindsay,” said Anne to the reed-thin girl with trendy eyeglasses behind
  the mahogany Louis Quinze desk.
  
  
  “Hi, Anne!” Lindsay replied with eager enthusiasm. “That was a fast lunch.”
  
  
  “Ta