Greetings, dear Reader! Every now and then I start off my post with the same question:  How are you doing? No, really --there's lots going on in the world and the holiday season has begun. All this can add up to S-T-R-E-S-S. I personally can fall into a little funk, especially if I tune in to current events. Besides turning off the assault from network news, I have another suggestion for feeling better.  This week I saw a quote from the 40th US president, Ronald Reagan, that

Hello, dear reader. I'm writing this on November 5, the evening of the Super Full Moon. All last week, I felt unsettled, and I simply couldn't think of what to write for this week's Thursday post. Then, we set the clocks back an hour, and I was doing one of my night shifts at the hospital that night. Sheesh, it was only an hour, but I felt like I was catching up for at least two days after. Because of that, I got my days mixed up, and my assistant had to remind me that I was