"Live By the Sword, Die By the Sword..."

That old saw has been running through my mind all day...what with Steve Irwin pierced through the heart by a stingray and Wayne Fenton -- a venerated psychiatrist recently killed by a patient.

I lived in a rural community when Dale Earnhardt went blazingly to the big dirt track in the sky -- there was black bunting hung from the door of every other house!

I hope when my time comes that I'm lucky enough to leave the planet in the same manner that I traveled it.