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Recently I was reading one of those fun calendars listing all the holidays - National Donuts Day, National Talk Like a Pirate Day, and National This or That Weeks. The list surprised me with some of the celebrations, including the National Hunt for Happiness Week, which I'd never heard about before. Not a bad idea, though. Apparently the third full week of every January is designated National Hunt for Happiness Week. How can we celebrate? I probably don't need to convince you

I watched a TV show last night in which a young girl needed emergency hospital treatment for something she'd done long ago. Five years earlier, the foolish child had eaten a small blue Lego block, and in the time since then, her body rallied a resistance to the foreign object, now giving the child major medical problems and a difficult diagnosis. Plastic doesn't easily show on most diagnostic tests. That episode reminded me of an incident many years ago when my youngest broth