Think of fun as a food--a daily sustenance, healthy, reducing our stress and making us laugh. This flavorous tome is divided into three servings. Part I includes 19 short stories about pranks I've pulled that were fun to create, or even to live through, in the first person. Part II features my three days at Woodstock and two 10-day white-water canoeing adventures that were fun for my wife and me with several friends. Part III offers samples of bogus letters, fake newspaper articles and signs that were fun to post, just to inflict some preposterous poking. It's all wrapped up with a final chapter, A Starter Kit for Budding Pranksters.

Do I have the credentials to scribe a book such as this? I have no advanced degree in prankology, won no awards for humor, but over the past 40 years have played plenty of capers on friends, relatives, neighbors, legislators and even one governor; and as far as I can recall, I have never been sued for any of my foolishness.

We all need a spoonful of honey each day. Whether spontaneous or contrived, exhaustive scientific research has shown even a small dose of fun is essential for our mental health, our happiness and our outlook on life. It's not just for kids; if you're not having some fun, your cup is not full. Are We Having Fun Yet? makes a great gift for all occasions--lots of good ideas--good clean fun.