By Gina Barreca, The Hartford Courant (TNS) “Laughing together is as close as you can get without touching,” I wrote in my first book, “They Used To Call Me Snow White … But I Drifted: Women’s Strategic Use of Humor,” published in 1991. Laughter has always been the best medicine; I wasn’t exactly making any boldly original statement almost three decades ago. I wasn’t expecting a MacArthur grant. But