Sounds like you are in good humor too. :)

Favorite Daughter is not insensitive to death, of course. I didn't mean to leave that impression. But the closest she has come to it personally has to do with love, not war. She wrote (and cried and laughed) after her beloved dance teacher died in December.

And then blogged, natch.
"For life's not a paragraph and death, I think, is no parenthesis":

Jules showed up after awhile, we all cried ourselves out until we were completely dehydrated, then we started laughing. Because that is what you have to do. . .