TO BRIDGE THE GAP: Magic happens when we listen to those nagging voices

I lost it at the dentist's office the other day. I was there with my mother and had been flipping through copies of Good Housekeeping while waiting for her for hours. I was hungry and impatient by the time she emerged, and then the receptionist presented us with an itemized and very detailed list of expensive dental work that my mother needed to have done during subsequent visits.