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  • My Unlikely Journey to the Classroom

    ByAllen Reding

    The Accident That Changed Everything About three months after I graduated from high school in 1978, I suffered a very serious accident in the home where I grew up. My brother had dashed into the garage, pushing the kitchen door open as far as it would go. That door, with its heavy spring closer, was primed to slam—unless I stopped it first. Instinctively, I reached out. Instead of my palm finding the wooden frame, it hit the pane of glass in the center of the door. I’d done that hundreds of times before, but this time my hand shattered the … Read more

  • Health Insurance: A Bitter Pill

    ByAllen Reding

    There’s an old joke – um… two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of ‘em says, ‘Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.’ The other one says, ‘Yeah, I know; and such small portions.’ —Woody Allen, Annie Hall Stuck With the Same Bad Menu, Again Imagine a friend badgered you into going to lunch at a popular, but expensive restaurant. Each entree is a clashing combination of ingredients you would never consider combining, and the final results are an assault on your taste buds. You are very hungry, however, and know this will be … Read more