Opinion

To the Editor:

To the Editor:

There is a whole set of numbers we’d rather forget, so I’ll write about them today. According to data published in National Vital Statistics Reports for March 22, 2022, my life expectancy is another 6.4 years.

I was not raised to say “sir” or “ma’am,” so those words have never been part of my regular vocabulary, except for three years in the Army when they were forced on enlisted personnel as the required way to address officers.

How did you stay sane during 2020?

Indiana is home to about 1 in 6 of all Amish Americans, with estimates from 2022 at about 62,000 adherents.

The members of the Indiana General Assembly possess a real passion for solving problems that don’t exist or that they created themselves.

I hadn’t planned to write about health care today but as I sat at the keyboard, the strain of the last two weeks kicked in: the doctors, the tests, the waiting, the nurses, the hospital, the lack of sleep.

Hearts

As of a month ago, Mary Ellen and I planned to attend her reunion in Ohio where she would celebrate the 50th anniversary of her graduation from college.