THESE TIMES

Becoming aware of the love around you is the only price you must pay to feel joy.

A recent headline on the cover of a health magazine: "One woman's 8-year journey with nasal polyps." I didn't read the story, but I did imagine some of the wonderful places in the world she could take those polyps of hers.

I was at Safeway the other day to get fish, and while I was talking to the fishmonger about something or other, he said, "You can't believe anything reported in the news. They're all bad." I told him I was a newspaperman. "No," I then told him. "They are not all bad. Newspapers aren't bad." The...