Life is stranger than fiction

Happenstance! Where would we be without it? That wonderful moment when you take an unexpected turn and suddenly you have discovered a treasure. I was browsing the net just before my seventieth birthday and saw SAN FRANCISCO COMEDY COLLEGE . I opened the link and saw the class schedule. On a whim, I wrote and said, "I would like to write a story about this college."
I received a phone call not two days later from Kurtis Matthews and he said, "I love small Jewish women."
I said, "You just found one."
And that started a career in stand-up comedy that continues to this day. It has branched out into story telling and has created much needed laughter in a world altogether too thirsty for a joke.
This wasn't as shocking an event as throwing a doll into a chil'ds face and injuring him, Inez. Yet it was just as surprising for me.
Happenstance. The best part of what life has to offer!
Lynn Ruth
April 29, 2005