Dear Doug R.,

I am glad that you are happy. I seriously wonder if the majority are! Many other terms come to mind: resigned, quiet desperation, pressured, Type A, poverty line, job insecurity, deadlines, dog-eat-dog, no time for the kids, peer pressure, get ahead, alcoholism ... you get my drift.

Why do you say that this country is freer than, say, any of the European industrialized countries? Or, until the U.S. squeezed it so hard, Cuba itself? I suppose it depends on definitions?

Cheers, Larry C.