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When I was a kid and got sick my Mom fixed my chicken noodle soup and read me a story and tucked me in “snug like a bug in a rug”. Dad would come in with some swell toy or a carton of Cokes (somehow you could keep those down when nothing else worked). It meant [...]

Movies we love or hate or are indifferent to tell us more about where we are emotionally than most realize. When I was 11 in 1954, I fell in love with a movie called “There’s No Business Like Show Business”. It was about a theatrical family in the Vaudeville era just after World War I and ended [...]

Decades ago I was  in the hospital for foot surgery. Late one evening a nurse came to my room without a thermometer, hypodermic needle or any other medical paraphernalia. She seemed depressed and coiled-up in herself.  She took a seat adjacent to my bed, avoiding my glance. She was silent for a moment. I became uneasy. Was [...]