title: Minute Musings 26 ways to view 31 days
author: Wilma Jackson
description: Wilma Jackson(Darcy DeMille), former syndicated columnist for ANP and NPI, was advice columnist, <i>Dear Wilma, for <i>The Flint Journal (a Gannett Publication), a columnist for<i> Sepia and<i> Hep magazines(Good Publishing Co.). She has been continuously in print in magazines and newspapers for more than 40 years. </i></i></i></i>
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  Desperate Remedies
  
  
    
    
  PREFATORY NOTE  
    
  I. THE EVENTS OF THIRTY YEARS  
    
  II. THE EVENTS OF A FORTNIGHT  
    
  [III. THE EVENTS OF EIGHT DAYS  
    
  ](Desperate%20Remedies_split_001.html#filepos67491)[IV. THE EVENTS OF ONE DAY  
    
  ](Desperate%20Remedies_split_001.html#filepos109293)[V. THE EVENTS OF ONE DAY  
    
  ](Desperate%20Remedies_split_001.html#filepos122009)[VI. THE EVENTS OF TWELVE
  HOURS  
    
  ](Desperate%20Remedies_split_001.html#filepos165036)[VII. THE EVENTS OF
  EIGHTEEN DAYS  
    
  ](Desperate%20Remedies_split_002.html#filepos210197)[VIII. THE EVENTS OF
  EIGHTEEN DAYS  
    
  ](Desperate%20Remedies_split_002.html#filepos243557)[IX. THE EVENTS OF TEN
  WEEKS  
    
  ](Desperate%20Remedies_split_002.html#filepos304404)[X. THE EVENTS OF A DAY
  AND NIGHT  
    
  ](Desperate%20Remedies_split_003.html#filepos354551)[XI. THE EVENTS OF FIVE
  DAYS  
    
  ](Desperate%20Remedies_split_003.html#filepos402989)[XII. THE EVENTS OF TEN
  MONTHS 