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So that's it! The reason Barb is so consistently right on target! She's a lefty, a southpaw, a portsider! On the theory that we superior types must stick together, I attach a piece I wrote recently about being left handed. Reflections on Chirality In order to avoid arousing and aggravating the right-handed majority, [Heaven knows they are aggravating enough as it is.] these reflections are right justified. [not possible in e-mail] Right-handed advice: Do right, in all things, do right I’ll try, sir, indeed, sir, I’ll try. Write right, at all times, write right That I cannot do, sir , indeed, sir, that I cannot do. Etymology [from Partridge] Left is derived from Leper. Right in all its senses is opposed toWrong. For Land Lubbers Port is to the left; Starboard is to the right. Loaded Language Adroit I am not No matter the what. More nimble than many Dexterity, I haven’t any. Clumsy, never. Yet, gauche forever. Sinister, I’m one, Yet threaten I none. Left-handed compliment Who needs it? Penmanship [with apologies to Omar Khayyam and Edward Fitzgerald] My moving Finger writes, and having writ Moves on. Keep your Piety, your Wit, Your Tears. My trailing Hand is guaranteed, To smudge out every blesséd phrase of it. The National Pastimes From the stretch, port-siders strare directly at the runner on first. If the first baseman is also a southpaw, the runner must be doubly wary. The left-handed batter’s box is two steps closer to first base than the right-handed batter’s box. TRBR is the expected, TRBB, TRBL, TLBL and TLBB are common; TLBR is nearly non-existent. Koufax and Spahn were lefties who pitched from the south and won lots of games. Clinton and Bush were lefties who pitched to the South and won the big game. George 64/15 and still dealing from the left