Turns out that all the answers to my problems were not at the bottom of a pint of ice cream. But the important thing is that I tried.

A woman went to the emergency room, where she was seen by a young new doctor. After about 3 minutes in the examination room, the doctor told her she was pregnant. She burst out of the room and ran down the corridor screaming. An older doctor stopped her and asked what the problem was; after listening to her story, he calmed her down and sat her in another room. Then the doctor marched down the hallway to the first doctor's room. "What's wrong with you?" he demanded. This woman is 63 years old, she has two grown children and several grandchildren, and you told her she was pregnant?!!" The new doctor continued to write on his clipboard and without looking up said: "Does she still have the hiccups? Rusty

LOL, Jasdip. One of our daily newspapers started running Between Friends to replace For Better or For Worse. Lots of angst about replacing our beloved For Better, but I just love Between Friends. I have been especially looking forward to the daily strip for the continuing story line.

The complaints about school hours could easily be fixed by changing the hours schools are in session, not changing the time for everyone. As for farming, animals don't know what a clock says. Many high schools have already set back the time school starts to better match the way the adolescent brain functions -- slow to engage in the a.m. and slow to shut down at night: Vampire brain.