--    Way back in 1965, when I was the first girl in my entire high school
to have her ears pierced, we went to the doctor's office, laid on the exam
table with a metal sheet for grounding, I guess, under our leg, and the
doctor used some sort of electric needle.  I called it a hole puncher!
Surgical thread was threaded through our ears and we had to pull it through
several times a day.  My dad had to put in my first earrings because my ears
were so tender.  My daughter, who has had numerous holes pierced in her ears
is speechless when I tell my story.
    Jacie in Albuquerque, where we are waiting a storm to come through on
Sunday, serves to scatter the Christmas shoppers