Love your comment! I was married in a dress I had worn before, on the deck of my mother's house, in front of 2 people. SO NOT A PRINCESS!

Many centuries ago, lavish weddings welded 2 politically powerful families together insuring the reign for centuries. Now, in a more democratic world, we have reality TV, reality $$$ and lavish reality (or not so reality) weddings for whatever reasons. Has anything really changed???

Nothing like a bad economy to kill idealism/altruism/you-name-the-ism . . .

If it expires, it looses pressure. Good to check on that!

Wow! Didn't know that! Massachusetts no longer requires a limited firearms license to purchase and carry mace. Whatever works, right?

Unfortunately, it is considered a weapon and high school's frown on bringing weapons to school! Oh, these crazy days we live in! But they can carry it elsewhere!

It looks like a purse substitute! You could carry stuff in it. Maybe a snack for later . . . . !

I was a passenger in the back seat. My legs were longer than his and I ran faster than he did. The guys in the auto body shop chased him but he made it back to the cab (that he left with the doors open and running on the highway). He's probably in prison for killing someone. Carry pepper spray!

Good on you. I had mace when I came face to face with a very large and healthy coyote (who stopped chasing a baby deer and then turned to face me and my dog)! But I didn't have mace when the taxi driver got his freak on and grabbed a knife from under his seat and chased me across a 4 lane highway (but 3 men in an auto…

So true. And people would be outraged if this was happening in the US today, but somehow we are all able to move on when it is happening continents away. We are so lucky to live here and not there. And then I feel guilty for not doing anything to help them . . . .

You have no control over someone else's mental illness but you can protect yourself. Just do it.

Love your comment, Cyla! Thank you.

The truth that no one really wants to voice is that it is really hard to make someone else the top priority in your life overnight (and I don't mean the spouse after the wedding). But hard as it is on you and your marriage (24 hours a day), there is nothing in my life that has been more meaningful or given me more…

Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck

Man up, Adam. No one wants to hear it. Live with it.

Agree! Thank whatever for that! Just too bad that they aren't using existing cockroaches instead of making new ones!

BTW, I meant "throwing one of your novels on Amazon (or elsewhere) as an eBook" without going through a traditional publisher first.

Hi Jennifer . . . My question for you is this: How do you see the eBook publishing model affecting the traditional publishing venues in the future? Have you ever considered throwing one of your novels on Amazon (or elsewhere) as an eBook? I love the open access that the eBook model provides to all authors (myself…

Research is underway in China (and South Korea) on the use of pulverized cockroaches for treating baldness, AIDS and cancer and as a vitamin supplement.