Sandra, on many levels I agree with you, and would have wholeheartedly when I was in my 20-30s. Age is something to be happpy about, be proud of those lines, etc. But, as a recent convert to Williams strategy, my opinion has changed now that I am in my mid-40s. What I have learned is that in my career, the older a woman looks the less well she is treated. I began to notice it was much, much harder to get my ideas across, even to other women! Now that I am doing the exercise, well-cut and styled hair, lighter makeup, and occasional restalyine to make me look fresher, it's easier. Maybe it's my confidence level is better, but I don't think so. It seems to me that women become sort of invisible as they age, if they aren't careful to appear youthful. Not youthful as in tying to look 21, but youthful in, I dunno, fresh? Nope, not fair, but, it appears to me to be the way business works.

Anybody remember dear ole Newt G. serving his wife divorce papers while she was being treated for breast cancer? He jsut couldn't wait for her to get out of the hospital before he dumped her for his sweetheart. Seems to me that both sides of the aisle have a large share of sleezes. And Craig didn't resign as he promised, did he? I bet he's still doing to Bathroom Dance somewhere in DC. I often wonder why our politicians take such incredible risks with sex?

but. my marriage ended over this issue - I cannot have children. As a single person, I felt I didn't have it in me to adopt, or foster a child, but I still wanted a child very badly. I ended up sponsoring one through a reputable fund, who lives in India. I went to meet her after a few years, and fell in love instantly. Turns out her mother - father took off - had three other children, one mentally disabled, and has a difficult time making ends meet as a street vendor. Long story short, I now send my sponsor child to an excellent school and have promised her college if she wants it, and I think she will. I also support her mother, who is no longer destitute for the first time in her life. Maybe I have 'outsourced' a family, but it has filled the deep void in my life, and seeing how she has blossed, and how her mother and sisters look so much happier, has done wonders for me as well. Maybe doing something similar would help you and your husband - nothing can completely fill that void, but this has helped.

Beautiful.

They have 3 dogs, and are gone all day. That's pretty cruel to expect the dogs to hold it that long. If they can be trained to use newspaper to crap and pee on, that might work. I feel sorry for these animals, cooped up hour after hour.

I'm not as sharp as you guys, but I never understood what on earth Bebop-o was talking about. I also miss Gary Owen tho.

A good cartoon.

I saw this Korean movie about 15 years ago - it is haunting, what happens to the woman. Definitely worth a look.

This Indian situation is different, however. India is the only place I have ever been where I have seen children who were mutilated - by their parents - so they can beg more effectively. If an Indian woman can rent her womb to a Westerner, and earn enough money to keep her and her children comfortable for what, years? More power to her. Some regulations do need to be imposed however, to make sure she isn't cheated. I've read about people selling their kidneys for just 100 for Pete's sake, and others who went to sell their kidneys who ended up dead by unscrupuous surgeons who took a lot more than one kidney. I think surrogacy between a Western family and an Indian woman has the potential to be an excellent thing for everyone involved.

Your Ivy League friends most probably have trust funds etc. consider studying something you can be more sure of making a living doing, and do the slave and imperial studies stuff for a hobby. That way you get to enjoy your studies with the stress of finding a job with it, worrying about the school you go to, etc.

Don't forget the US economy is in the dumpster and isn't going to get any better anytime soon.

He doesn't trust you. If you can't get him to tell you why, so you can discuss and resolve the issue, then the relationship is doomed.

A friend of mine just sent me some pictures from Tibet. Nine of them, and I could only look at one. It was of a man being eviserated alive. I've sent them to all the news media I could find, but I suspect these kinds of pictures are common with the Chinese. The Chinese government has so little respect for human life, how could they possibly have respect for anything else?

...womens studies, queer studies, etc., is that some young people take this crap and get majors in it. Which qualify them to do.....nothing at all. Money isn't everything - until you don't have any and can't get a job. I have no idea why colleges and universities offer these crap degrees, they should have some shame.

They just have their gardener - wow they must have some money to be able to hire someone to do their outside work - just clean up the yard? If the old lady didn't say anything while the oleanders were going up, maybe she wouldn't have said anything to someone cleaning up the yard?

You probably meant to say...."HE" has his fun for a season. Five young girls and one adult male, you can bet they weren't having 'fun'.