You might remember reading about this in 2009 when The Captain and I were in La Paz. SASS was a group of women of got together with as Sailors acquiring sailing skills. Today I want to borrow that acronym and adopt it for my sisters her in the valley. The last few weeks have been bitter sweet for me as I prepare to depart once more. Lots of tears shed and aches in my back: Lilian, from up the street at Summervale, sent the following tonight..........might explain a few things for you. (Remember she was Joeys' care giver last season??) Read on: "I just finished taking an evening class at Stanford. The last lecture was on the mind-body connection - the relationship between stress and disease. The speaker (head of psychiatry at Stanford) said, among other things, that one of the best things that a man could do for his health is to be married to a woman, whereas for a woman, one of the best things she could do for her health was to nurture her ...