What was it Chekhov once said? ‘We live for love, and for hope and dreams, and for the small things that please us and for little else.

A hundred years ago, it could take you the better part of a year to get from New York to California; whereas today, because of equipment problems at O’Hare, you can’t get there at all.” Dave Barry.

I am reminded of the query made about man's inhumanity to man in the concentration camps. The question was asked: At Auschwitz, tell me, where was God?And the answer came: Where was man?For it was men alone who did this evil. Not God or religion or men acting in the name of God or religion. But simply men.

Whatever begins to exist has a cause.