Sunday comes and we’ve lost another one. Sarah has the stomach bug that had been torturing David the previous days. She is laid out, no chance of moving. Let me share with you the history of this virus. When we arrived on Thursday, David’s roommate Sam was just recovering from something nasty. David got it Friday, Laurie spent a couple of days in bed feeling very ill and now Sarah has succumbed. I’m the next obvious target on the hit list but I’m dodging, dipping, ducking, diving, and….dodging, the very best that I can. Under such perilous circumstances, it is within our nature to place blame. Unfortunately, Sam, Sick, and Scapegoat are all wonderfully alliterative and dear Sam was the first to get ill. Therefore, Scapegoat Sam, as he will here forth be known, is the
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