A little too eager to start her life of humor, Lola Dawson’s birth in 1930 was a bit too early, leaving her with physical challenges she must learn to laugh about. The path from a dresser drawer to the comedy stage hasn’t been easy, but there were lots of gaffes and laughs along the way. Not even seventeen major surgeries would stop this North Carolinian turned Californian from turning her golden years into a second career of making people laugh. Now, award-winning humorist Lola Dawson Gillebaard tells her story of learning to laugh at her own challenges, and turning life’s lemons into a lemon-drop martini!