By Barbara and Mel West, melwest@aol.com, Columbia

Barbara and I are "keeping on keeping on," with our cat, Pumpkin, and many friends. We will celebrate our 77th in June - a record for us. We are looking forward to another year of gardening, but I have given in and hired some help for that.

If any of you know where there is a good Parish Nurse Program at work, please give me a contact. With so many rural hospitals closing, and all else that is happening in rural America, I working on an article to encourage such a program. Two more Missouri hospitals in rural Missouri closed last week.