Biff America: Between work and death

Biff America: Between work and death

“If you have your health, you have everything.” So was the credo of my grandmum, Bridget Sheely. As a young boy I considered that assertion absurd. Back then, having my health certainly wasn’t like having “everything.” It wasn’t, for instance, like having a mini-bike, go-cart or a swimming pool behind your house — I would have loved to have one of those.But from my grandmother’s perspective, all that stuff was incidental compared to being health…