This is not necessarily a good thing. Your airways have these little hairs that move secretions along. If they are dried out, they can't move them.

The first question that comes up is why would you want to stop a cough? The cough is a mechanism your body uses to protect you from pneumonia. So the last thing we want to do is take away your body's natural defenses. We're not in favor of cough medicine from the get-go.

There's no evidence cough and cold medicines work. We're pretty much talking about all of the medicines.

I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields.

It's hard to get that real good feeling about festivals sometimes.

When I did see the story of Persephone, I was really drawn to it. Persephone, the goddess of spring, was kept from Olympus by her mother, Demeter, because Demeter was very worried that the gods of Olympus would do something terrible to her.