I was touched by Ana Maria Spagna's essay, "Staying
Put"
(HCN,
3/03/08). As parents to two elderly-but-still-healthy,
but nonetheless dependent and emotionally needy cats, we stay home
quite a bit. And I've been hoping for a long time to hear someone
in authority, or aspiring to authority, suggest to the American
people that we might try to cut back on travel a bit - or at least
ask ourselves once in a while, "Is this trip necessary?" I guess
that's a good way to lose votes - where is Jimmy Carter when we
need him? At least he turned the thermostat down.
Sarah
Doll
Lander, Wyoming