Who Owns You?

A few years back my mom got a pacemaker:  her doctor thought a heart rate of 22 beats a minute seemed a touch low. This month her cardiologist detected that the pacemaker wasn’t operating properly and mom needed to have Read More …

The Missouri Go Round

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Get comfy…this will take a while. A chain of emails related to the operation of Missouri’s food stamp program arrived yesterday.  State Representative Sarah Unsicker (D – Shrewsbury) shared this information. An outstate gentleman serves as legal guardian for an Read More …

Reckonings

Last Monday, as frigid weather battered Texas, I called friends in Houston:  the call never went through.  Along with thousands of other basic parts of everyday life, the cell phone system failed.