Tag: wisdom
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Helping the Medicine Go Down
You may remember, as I do, the childhood equivalent of a death-row pardon – the sugar cube vaccination. For the younger ones among us, it was a means of giving a vaccine orally by simply putting into a cube of sugar. It meant that, at least for that particular vaccination, there would be no shot…
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The Grace to . . . Shut Up?
One of my sons asked me several times this weekend, “What do I say?” There are probably too many things being said already. There is way too much talk from way too many people – most of whom know very few facts about the matters at hand. Why is it that we seem instinctively drawn…
