Challenge NOT accepted. :-) I write what I write, when I want to, in whatever style feels right at the time. If something funny or fun occurs to me, I'll roll with it. Many of my deep and even my mournful pieces have fun for me passages interspersed.

I'm not going to sit down to write something funny. If I have something to say and a funny way to deliver it occurs to me, like last night, great.

Here's one of my favorites from one of my early essays: "For as long as I can remember, when asked what I would do if money were no object, my answer was, “teach.” Being in front of a class with chalk in hand never resonated, and besides, my handwriting is atrocious (loving that irony). Being in front of a lecture hall of sapiosexual female college/grad students sounds hot, and Sitara thinks so too, but that's enough tangenital humor."

I bet most people read that as tangential or as a typo. If you did, look again.