True it is, without falsehood, certain and most true. For a journalist at a weekly paper, especially one as small as the Carrier, The Day the Paper Comes Out is a day of rest. I usually strolled into the office around eleven, caught up on correspondence, read all of the magazine articles I hadn't been able to read during the week, made some long-distance personal calls, pretended to start thinking about next week's pieces, and left at five sharp. If I was feeling virtuous, I'd file some of my week's notes and clear a landing strip on my desk, but usually I saved that for ...

<!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } -->When words like hospital, sick, surgery, doctors, and medicine are brought up, what comes to your mind? I think of things like pain & suffering, hurting, and fear, but hey that’s just me. For many people those types of words evoke feelings of sorrow and worry, for most of the time people have had loved ones who have been through a painful experience that made it necessary from them to seek medical treatment. In order to fully come to terms to what it is like to be severely sick or needing ...