"I only have a minute. I'm watching C-Spanish." My 105-year-old mother was calling from Forest Trace in Lauderhill, Florida.
I knew she meant C-SPAN. These days she's been glued to the TV. So much is going on in Washington.
"And it's making me depressed."
"What else is new," I said, "My recommendation is that you watch something entertaining. C-SPAN and CNN and Fox News," the other things she watches, "will make you crazy."
"C-Spanish I also find entertaining. Most of what they say there is not to each other but to people watching on TV. Only when there is an important vote is anyone there. But it is making me crazy."
"So why . . ."
"Why? I may be on my last legs but I have my mind and things that I care about. That includes our country. America. You know I came here from a shtetl in Poland?"