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...
