Ed Smith has been writing "The View From Here" for more than twenty-three years. In that time, the humour column has been appearing in daily newspapers, weekly community papers, and monthly magazines. He has written for Reader's Digest, the Toronto Star, and several other publications. A series of radio broadcasts presented on the national CBC network earned him and his producer a coveted international Gabriel Award for material that "uplifts the human spirit." The columns in this book are deemed to be the best of his work from the early '90s. You Might As Well Laugh is his eighth book. His last, From the Ashes of My Dreams, became a Canadian Best-Seller and won the Newfoundland and Labrador non-fiction award for 2002. Short listed for the 2005 Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards - Rogers Cable Non-Fiction Award