Richard Feinman reportedly commented that the trouble with dying was that it is too d. boring.  It is also miserably uncomfortable.  At least modern medicine and - for now - the law allows it to be relatively painless. 

Considerable excitement, controversy, and name calling is being generated by a government decision to require religious employers who regard contraception to be sin to provide insurance coverage for contraception to their employees. 

The cost for this new life-bird was about $25 for auto fuel. 

A busy but successful day in the Sunshine State.  We awoke early.  Mom and Dad Woods said good-by to Mary Helen, then Anne and I took her to the airport for a return to New York.  Leaving her there, we stopped at the Six-Mile Cypress Preserve to walk about the swamp on boadwalks.  It was cold.  We put on jacket and gloves.