We live in cynical times when so many silly people say there are no such things as unicorns or flying dragons. They even say there is no Santa Claus...

Julia, I am right-handed, which would be all right except that I am one of those rare right-handed people who suffers from solodexterous ignoratio, a condition in which the right hand never knows what the left hand is doing. My right hand can be penning a love letter while my left hand is strangling an…