Winter, Then and Now

Do you remember the winters of your childhood? Remember being bundled up in snow pants so bulky you couldn’t bend your knees? Remember the slightly musty smell of wet mittens? Remember pulling your foot out of your boot in the coat room at school, only to have the stupid felt liner stay on your foot….

And I Was Very Brave

Well, maybe I wasn’t “very” brave, but at least I wasn’t sobbing on the operating table this time. Surgery was pretty smooth, and the doctor promised to be extra gentle. Bless him, he mixed another drug (bicarbonate of something) into the freezing to take some of the sting out of it; he also used an…