During her many travel adventures, Doris Schoenhoff has learned that clear eyes, an open heart, humility to adapt, and a ready laugh are invaluable when crossing the border of a country and embracing a different culture. Some, she suggests, may find, as she did, that it is really about being an explorer of one's spirit.

In a fascinating retelling of her world travels, Doris chronicles diverse personal experiences including a move to New Zealand and a brush with the fated Air New Zealand Flight 901, as well as life in South Africa during Nelson Mandela's term as president. Her reflections about the healing power of laughter along with her original photographs vividly bring her travel tales to life.

Living in God's Laughter details the adventures of an avid traveler who embraced the rich variety of humankind and the spirit of laughter while seeing the world.