My wife, Marie, and I have had many wonderful times together. We’ve taken trips and gone to concerts and watched movies and just sat on the sofa holding hands. We work in the yard and on the house together. We truly enjoy one another’s company, so we don’t necessarily have to have “entertainment” to be happy together. This is what we’ve always considered “to have and to hold” to mean. And we’ve enjoyed many happy, healthy years.
Marie recently went through a life-threatening trauma. She’d been sick all day, in the evening she asked me to take her to the hospital Emergency Room. Upon arrival they took some basic information – mostly about how they were going to get paid – and sent her to the triage room. Above the nurse’s desk here is a big sign reading, “Patients are NOT seen in the order of arrival. Patients are seen in the order of severity of their injury or illness.” The triage nurse took Marie’s vitals and gave her a very brief once-over then said, “OK, let’s go.” and rushed her right into a bed in the ER. Continue reading “To Have and To Hold, In Sickness and In Health”
I was working steadily and pulled up a board to find, laying in the gap between two boards below the one I had in my hands, a fair sized copper head. I tossed the board I held aside and looked around for weaponry. Fortunately it was quite early in the morning; cool, and the snake had not yet had its coffee. I dispatched it easily and with little fuss. Had it been later in the morning, things might not have gone so well.
Each American consumes a yearly average of 23.2 quarts of ice cream, ice milk, sherbet, ices and other commercially produced frozen dairy products.