Scene: A large hospital in the metropolitan area.A harried looking woman paces back and forth in front of a busy nurse’s stand, speaking too loudly on a cell phone: “Hello, Uncle Nunzio! I’m so glad you called. Yes, Yes, I know how concerned you are about my mother. She’s doing pretty well at the moment, but things – No, no! I didn’t...

My friends are worried about me. They think I’ve gone over the edge because of the current stress in my life. Well, stress does do strange things to a person. You hit the wrong number on your speed dial and insist on talking to the person you thought you had called (Is this the party to whom I am speaking — or what?), you try to make a call with the remote, or...