Truth To Tell

  I don't know when it began, all that hugging on TV.  Used to be that the Hollywood air-kissing style was the subject of humor and ridicule, but currently every celebrity guest introduced on a TV program hugs the hosts and anyone else in the general area.  Because I no longer travel in fashionable circles, I can't say whether the hugging trend has carried over into real-time life.  I can say that the only hug I've received in recent months, from anyone over the age of 3, was from a 73-year-old physician whose first language is Hindi.