A Fingery Pistle to My Grandchildren

Dear Grandchildren: This New Years letter is all about fingers: finger marks, finger prints and finger posts. I am sure that all of you know what finger marks are. Your mother must have told you a dozen times, when you were a toddler, not to put your hands against the windows; You get all finger marks on my clean windows, she would say. Or, after she had just waxed and polished the living room table top she would warn you kids, Now be careful and dont put your hands on the table, or it will be...