David Aitken

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Is Down Sometimes Up?

Pandemics aren't the only things that can seem to turn the whole world upside down.  Or topsy-turvy, as we might describe it, if this...

Everyone Likes a Bargain

For economy of language, it would be hard to beat a market trader in Beirut trying to sell me a briefcase with the words,...

It Started with an Onion

As I stride tentatively towards my 77th birthday, it's beginning to look like I will live forever, which makes me wish I had stopped...

No Virus Ever Went to College

Can I ask you to please settle down, as the lecture is about to begin.  I know those chairs aren't very comfortable, but I'm...

Do You Mean that Literally?

Waiting for a bus, I'm burning to death in this heat.  To make matters worse, I'm dying of thirst.  And I'm so hungry I...