Month: October 2002

The only response to the e-mail I received was to say, “Me and my toys are on our way.” The e-mail from my daughter-in-love said, “Basil insisted that we go see Grandma. He has been asking me for months. I guess he finally lost patience because he sat himself down on the 2 foot high…

The following is an edited version of e-mail from my New Orleans’ son: Last night, I was robbed at gun-point. It was a traumatic experience. For me, it was traumatic because I absolutely hate to have control taken from me. There is no more effective way to dominate someone than to point a gun at…

Third place APME The story is local. It happened in El Dorado this past month, but it could just as well be anywhere in the state of Arkansas. The patient had to leave the hospital. Medicare funding dictated that enough money had been spent on his in-hospital care. So, still quite ill, he was released,…

Remodeling while living in a house is akin to ironing an outfit while wearing it – a bit too close for comfort. I tried ironing an outfit I was wearing – once, but I spent the first ten years of our marriage in a carpenter’s nightmare – I mean fixer-upper. We bought it after it…