by Mary | Aug 30, 2011 | DOC
This morning, my beloved husband of 41 years made me shoot coffee out my nose. He was reading a summary of Dick Cheney’s new memoir In My Time and muttered, “Should have been In Your Face.” Which was funny on sooooo many levels… A lot goes into...
by Mary | Aug 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
A week ago, my husband Don and I went to bed on an unremarkable Friday night. Six hours later, there was a startling 4 AM phone call telling us that my brother Richard had just undergone emergency abdominal surgery for a perforated bowel, part of which had been...
by Mary | Aug 10, 2011 | DOC, DREAMERS OF THE DAY
It’s hard for us to imagine how poor dental health was until recently. Michael Korda’s new biography of Lawrence of Arabia (Hero) gives a startling example. T.E. Lawrence enlisted in the Royal Air Force when he was 32, shortly after the 1921 Cairo Peace...