I got to sit on an airplane for 9 hours recently with a lengthy buffet of movies to distract me from the middle-seat squish. I watched three movies about heroic women; one of them was “RBG”, the documentary about the diminutive legal powerhouse, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who turns 86 this month.

The word “joy” has come to my attention several times recently. I am reading a book called “The Book of Joy” about Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama and coincidentally several people have asked if I’ve seen the Netflix program about the “Joy of Tidying Up” with Marie Kondo.

Do you drink enough water? How do you know? Guidelines for fluid intake are not especially well researched and therefore less well-known, so it’s understandable that this is a bit of guess-work.