To Ron: Today we had freezing rain, and the sidewalks & streets were treacherous. As I was out of bread to make my lunch sandwich, I walked to a nearby grocery store, slipping, sliding, and falling once. No harm done.

At the store I discovered there was a sale on some of my favorite items so I loaded up my cart and made my way carefully home where I found the one thing I did not buy. THE BREAD! -R

To R: you are coming to the age when you will appreciate two conveniences more dearly than all else: Reading glasses and Grocery Lists. Your forgetting the bread is so typical of my average trip to the grocery story if I go without a written list.

For a while I used a little recording device about the size of a small cock, but I felt foolish listening to it in the store. I must find it and start again taking shopping. Screw what other people think, and that's one marvelous advantage of ageing: you have no shame in taking care of yourself first.

PS: Tread carefully on the ice. It gets more slippery as you get older.