• WINTER COLDS

    WINTER COLDS My father-in-law gets a cold every winter like clockwork. If you ask him how he feels some time between December and March, he will inevitably say, “Oh, I’ve got my winter cold”. It’s not exactly that he likes having a cold in winter; it’s just that he expects it. We develop a strange,

  • JUST A THOUGHT

    JUST A THOUGHT I was making the bed with the TV on. I always make the bed with the TV on. It keeps me company while I do a rather boring, routine task. Anyway, there was this middle-aged man on the screen holding a pill. He said he had helped to perfect this pill, and

  • FOR ELIZABETH EDWARDS AND ALL OF US

    FOR ELIZABETH EDWARDS AND ALL OF US Word was all over the country yesterday that Elizabeth Edwards has been diagnosed with breast cancer. I think everyone’s hearts went out to her and to her family. To have this kind of news on the very same day that the Kerry-Edwards team had to concede must have