The many recent news articles about the latest foiled terrorist plots have prompted me to once again confront what I really hate thinking about -- terrorist attacks.

William McCarthy, Ph.D, president of Threat Research, Inc., international security management consulting firm (www.threatresearchinc.com), told me recently that he expects to see multiple terrorist events -- a "moving event," with an increase in the use of liquid explosives. Such an attack, Bill believes, is imminent... not if but when. (One consolation -- Bill believes that a nuclear attack is unlikely.)

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I, like most Americans, have had lengthy discourse recently about the health care debate. Most provocative has been what I've heard from physical therapist Mitchell Yass (www.PT2therapy.com) and anesthesiologist David Sherer, author of Dr. David Sherer's Hospital Survival Guide. As David said to me the other day, "It's not a health care crisis, but a health crisis.

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I recently had to visit a Federal building with a coworker. I went through the metal detector at the entrance with no problem (okay, I had to remove my watch). My cohort forgot to remove the small pen knife from her keychain, and had to surrender it.

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On the last day of our summer vacation and hours from home, my youngest daughter developed pink eye. Hoping to stave off a major infection and limit the chances of everyone in the family catching it, I ran into a shop to see if they had chamomile tea -- a home remedy for pink eye (you just wet the teabag and hold it on the eye). They didn't have it, but the woman behind the counter directed me across the street to a health food store.

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