LAUGHING MATTERS

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LAUGHING MATTERS is for people who find that laughing matters...even when it's no laughing matter. Join me in finding humor in navigating midlife, music, memoir, and moving to France for a year. Spoiler alert: we moved back!

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About Lisa St. Lou

Singer-Songwriter | Comedy Writer | At the "no fucks to give" part of my life. Finding humor in middle age, ex-pat life in France, and reflections on being married to (and divorced from) a megalomaniacal narcissist. But it's funny.

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