If You're Feeling A Little Hemmed In Right Now...

... it's because we just passed the 7 billion mark for the human population on this planet. This is, of course, an estimate, as no one really knows exactly how many people there on Earth. The population has more than doubled in my lifetime so far, as there were a few hundred million less than 3.5 billion occupants when I was added to the mix. My 85-year-old aunt, who's still among us, was born into a world that hadn't yet reached 2 billion at the time, so just imagine how much more crowded it must seem to her now!