LAUGHING ON THE MORNING RADIO SHOW

Tomorrow morning, Tuesday, September 6, I will be sitting in for Jeni Grouws on the Morning Show at KDEC Radio of Decorah, Iowa. It runs from 6 a.m. until 9 a.m. Central Standard Time and can be tuned into your FM dial at 100.5. For those of you out of that listening area, no problem! You can stream it at this link.

Get your day started off right as Tim Michaelson and I will talking about laughter yoga, laughing, and generally creating a lot of mayhem that will be fun for the whole family. Oh, and there will be some good music too!

BUY 2 GET ONE FREE ON COMMUTER CDS

You may have seen by yesterday's blog post, that my commuter CD, Laugh Your Way There, is now in it's second edition. Very Good, Very Good, Yay!

Thanks to all of YOU, the laughter keeps growing and people are laughing their way to work, school, shopping malls, playgrounds, swimming pools and just about everywhere! Good bye road rage, hello world peace through laughter. :)

As a thank you, The Laughter Shoppe is extending a limited time offer on this product. Right now, you can buy 2 and get one FREE! That's just $29.90 for 3 discs. Now you can share them with your friends, family and co-workers (especially if you want a more pleasant work experience). Ha ha ha!

Note, this offer is only for on-line paypal orders. Click below to order. It's so simple.

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It is also available as an MP3 download for just $9.99 at CD Baby.

Do you have something say about Laugh Your Way There? How does it help you laugh more? Please e-mail me at: laughterlaura@yahoo.com. I'd love to include your review at my site. You can also post your review directly at Amazon.com. Thanks!

LAUGH YOUR WAY THERE, THE 2ND EDITION, IS HERE!

Good news, commuters! You don't have to be grumpy as you drive or ride to work. A new shipment of my "Laugh Your Way There" CDs arrived today. In 2008, The Gentry Joint released this original program designed diminish stress on the road. It's been enjoyed by people around the world who laugh their way to wherever their destination may be and arrive in a good mood.

The shipment got here just in time, as the first edition was all sold out! YAY! The last remnants of our inventory was purchased last week at the 2010 All America Laughter Yoga Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The Gentry Joint is a most indie of indie labels, so new projects arrive at our house by UPS. As I awaited the delivery, I decided to debut my new flamingo hat. My old one has pretty much been laughed out.

When, oh, when will the truck be here? My flamingo and I waited patiently.

At last, he arrived. And it was our substitute driver, Jeff, a friend I've known since college! He was hardly surprised to find me receiving the packages in my pink attire.

Along with the CDs, two brand new posters arrived. Here I am with the "Free, Indeed" poster filled with 5 of my paintings.

And here I am with the "Fruit of the Spirit Guys" made of William's photographs. They both look so wonderful in person!

Such an exciting day. I just had to share it with all of you, my laughter friends! You can find all 3 of these items at my newly re-designed Laughter Shoppe, which now has it's own domain: www.TheLaughterShoppe.com. Laugh Your Way There retails for $14.95 and the posters are $4.95 each.

Happy Laughing!

TODAY IS A LAUGHING DAY

My debut album, Today is a Laughing Day, is available at the Laughter Shoppe at my Web site, www.LaughingLaura.com. In fact, there is an introductory offer going on right now where you can save $4.95 between now and Christmas Eve. The price is just $10. After Christmas, it will retail for $14.95.

Let me tell you more about this album. It all began with the production of Laughter Friends—the workout video of Laughter Yoga I produced last year. For this project, I collaborated with my husband, William Gentry, and jazz pianist, Tom Bourcier. Together, we wrote five fun songs, which we used in the video.

They were live versions, however, and I knew that such fabulous songs deserved studio recordings. It has been almost a year since I said, "Hey, let's make a kids album!" I've learned that being a music producer is seriously hard work, but it is also exciting.



William and I proceeded to write ten more songs and cheers, bringing the album total to fifteen. Here is a listing of the tracks in order:

1. Today is a Laughing Day
2. Laughter Friends
3. Turkey the Turtle
4. Enthusiastic
5. Laughing with Me
6. The Parking Fairy
7. Laughing for Peace
8. We Like to Laugh
9. Smile Millionaire
10. Happy to be Laughin' with You
11. Here Comes the Garbage Lady
12. Amazing
13. Free Laughs
14. Ranger Kathy
15. Today is a Laughing Day Reprise

I worked with sound engineer Brett Huus at Soundstrations Studio in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. There, we recorded the album—from July and until November.

The band consists of Tom Bourcier on piano, Rich MacDonald on percussion and Karyn Quinn on bass. The backup singer is Trish Bruxvoort Colligan of The River's Voice.


The "Gigglers" (pictured above) are the children who added laughter and silly sound effects to the album.

Below is the graphic design of the back cover.


The CD is packaged in a beautiful digipak with full color printing. It is eco-friendly—made of recycled cardboard and the CD tray is made of reused plastic water bottles. In fact, the 1000 CDs saved 400 bottles from the landfill!

You can also order Today is a Laughing Day at Amazon.com or you could download it instantly at DigStation, which is the greenest option.


Of course, I encourage you to order directly from me at the Laughter Shoppe (support indie artists)!

In the coming weeks, I will write more about these songs at this blog. Thanks for visiting! ha ha ha!