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Can you tell I have the flu? "Whatever"? Honestly. I read an article about Ronald Reagan and dementia that said one researcher who studied Reagan's word choices while he was in office  concluded that his growing use of vague nouns like "stuff" and "thing" should have...

I have the flu, I think. Achy, sore throat, nasty cough, sleepy. I came down with it right after an annual post-health fair check-up when I assured my new doctor that I never get sick, and that she will only see me about once a year, and always in April, as that's...

The Mexican quintet Metales M5 (they were great, "fabulous" even as my friend Nancy would say) managed to fly out today in all this wind and rain. The little airline office at the airport was like a scene from a Marx Brothers movie when they arrived, trying to squeeze...

Before church Easter Sunday I asked Ivy (almost three) if the Easter Bunny had come to her house, and she said, "No." What no Easter Bunny?  "Santa Claus left us baskets of candy and presents and Jesus is going to hide eggs in the yard," she said.

There is nothing like a sunny, snow-free, mild Easter to make a whole town smile. It is so nice to be out of the gloom of Lent and in to spring. I keep thinking about what the Dalai Lama said, that death is a change of clothes, and how Jesus would no doubt agree, and...

Happy Easter!