I pity the folks who will take care of me when I grow too old to help myself.  Like my mother, I don’t accept assistance easily.   Already, I’m having a tug of wills with the women who clean my apartment at the retirement center.  I can’t stop them from scrubbing my toilet,

Well yes, (yawn) Downton Abbey has returned for a new season on public television.  I quit watching after year 3 when the heir to the estate died in a car accident.  Frankly, I was never fond of any character, except Maggie Smith’s.  The rest are too bland or too precious to hold