Happy to be home

Happy to be home

Driving in foreign countries is a real eye-opener. In the Scottish Highlands, a highway road sign says: Watch for vehicles in the middle of the road. The turns are not engineered for ease of executing at highway speeds as they are in the US, so it’s permitted to make...
Hey, slow down! Wait for me!

Hey, slow down! Wait for me!

Heraclitus (500 BC) is commonly accepted as the speaker of the aphorism ‘The only constant in life is change.’ I didn’t know him personally, but he was pretty spot-on, in my humble opinion. Most notable among changes, are the unpleasant, annoying kind and close to the...
Where angels fear to tread

Where angels fear to tread

Early on in our marriage, Sue and I were visiting her parents. On one occasion, her father gave me a man’s tour of the kitchen, explaining that at their house, family was on their own for breakfast. So, cereal was to be found on the lazy Susan (?). Bread was in...
Proof positive!

Proof positive!

I remember, in math class, my non-math-oriented classmates groaning when, on a test, there were problems to be solved. That wasn’t the main trigger, though. It was the line: ‘Show all your work.’ Yep. The teacher wanted to know that the process for solving was fully...
And cake, too!

And cake, too!

It’s incredible when you think about it. An unknown team of medical researchers in an unknown lab in an unknown location work tirelessly to create a small tablet which they’ve formulated to be a 12-hour extended-release pain medication. The sufferer, who has been...