TIME OFF!
Today is the last day of my Second Term break. As I look forward to another busy Term, I also look backand wonder about all that I could have done! But holidays have a way of racing by, especially when your family is with you. I couldn’t agree more with Elbert Hubbard, when he said, No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one! Of course I did the usual things one does during holidays- watch my favourite TV programmes on travel, nature and food late into the night and wake up a little late, the next morning! During one such session, as I was surfing through the limited channels brought to us by our local Cable Network, I chanced to see the Everglades, the wetlands that stretch across southern Florida . It is the home of the Gator Boys, alligator trappers, who tackle South Florida 's most stubborn alligators. Had it not been for an interesting memory, I might have given it a miss. I remember teaching the kids a story, titled, Trashmasher , from the En...