Personally I am haunted by the irony that someone like Sheila, whose message to the world was all about nurturing, could have a child who would shoot her.

They had supported him ... for freedom's sake, they would have said; meaning as do all men who mouth that catchword, freedom for themselves and their own class.

The irony is we went way out of the world and had to learn worldly skills to survive out there. What people who understand us discover is we have experts is every field of human endeavor.

We've already seen two patients from South Dakota in the past two weeks. We were stunned.

There is no one I have ever known who personified more the loving, caring universal mother figure. She was always studying nutrition, child care issues ... and constantly looked for ways to better her care of either her own children or the ones she sat for.

To my delight, instead of the usual unkempt, gum-chewing, tobacco-scented, tired and bored woman in a bad part of town, I was greeted by a lovely, clean, organized and educated lady with a deep and true love of children.