Embrace the shame and realize it means that you are not a sociopath.

Continue making payments to repay the debt and every day practice not stealing and acting honorably. It is time to reinvent yourself as a person who does not steal.

I think if you look for a new job, do not go back to the same career position. You do not want to constantly remind yourself of how you were once tempted and succumbed to temptation.

Get as far away as you can from accounting, banking, any job that gives you access to petty cash or a cash register. Shy away from any job where there are valuable things available to steal and/or sell on the black market.

Consider working in wildlife, in a forest or national park. Consider work on an assembly line if such jobs are still available. There are many office jobs and professions in which you encounter paper paper and more paper all day long nary a dollar bill unless someone asks you to organize a baby shower.

I would also suggest childcare or teaching, but maybe not until after you've re-established yourself as a trustworthy person for the next five years. You want to be able to guide these little souls toward honesty and truthfulness so you should be able to walk the walk with certainty by then.

Finally, consider going into business for yourself. There is no one to steal from in that situation. Just pay the sales taxes you collect, give the government its share, and you will do okay.

Don't commit suicide. There is no guarantee of reincarnation or an afterlife. Just re-invent yourself as a honest person while you still have time left in this lifetime.

You can do it.

In the 50 years since your husband left you, you could have gotten a job and at least earned social security benefits for yourself.

Can't they just teach their own kids to abstain from having sex without using my tax dollars to do it? Maybe they can apply for grants from Christian organizations and churches that share their message?

I try to have compassion for you but sometimes you are such a dimwit, just looking for something to complain about.

The documentarian was never arguing that male circumcision was not as bad as female circumcision. That was never her thesis. She just didn't want to approach the subject of female circumsion in her documentary, she didn't even want to make a comparison or broach the subject. For better or worse, she wanted to keep the focus on the male circ question.

And although she caved to the pressure to circumcise her first son, she apparently (it is implied but not said explicitly) permitted her second son to remain intact, having studied the issue in more depth and having come, apparently, to the same position that you espouse-- that any forced circumcision is wrong.

You are so punchy! Anything a woman says, you want to argue with, even if the woman is agreeing with you.

The still photo of the two curious babies on the beach is beyond cute. I remember the first time my four month old son tried to get a glimpse of his own parts, sans diaper, he almost did a somersault trying to see it clearly.

In a way we werelucky that my child's hypospadias diagnosis saved us from the to-circ-or-not dilemma (we are a mostly Jewish family so needless to say, the pressure was ON). Unfortunately, the hypospadias corrective surgery at 9 months, and the two-week recovery period, totally sucked for my kid-- making a momentary circ look like an easy deal in comparison.

In my heart I believe that any non-medically necessary circumcision is wrong-- for religious reasons or otherwise. I am not anti-semetic in saying this, as I love my Jewish family more than anyone else in the world. Circumcision is a relic from a superstitious past. Religious and cultural traditions which inflict pain on others simply for the sake of tradition should rightfully be discarded.

I am very grateful that I am pregnant with a girl this time around.

The lawyer may cost you more than the inheritance is worth, but if you are upset in principal then have a lawyer demand an accounting.

I am guessing that the technicality is something along the lines of, the wife got everything when your Dad died, and willed it all to her daughter. There had been some lip service to the kids prior to his and her death that everything would be shared equally and maybe even a draft of an "acceptable" will circulated to everyone, but either the "acceptable" will wasn't properly executed and witnessed, or was never signed at all.

Have a consultation with the lawyer, who can call the lawyer for the Estate and then evaluate the likelihood of you winning a challenge to the existing will.

I am guessing the token sum offered by the stepdaughter is a very calculated amount-- i.e., what you would have gotten under the will that was verbally promised minus all of the attorney fees and court costs you would need to spend in order to fight in court.

Also, regarding your being a "tax resistor"-- if you drive your car on the roads and bridges, if your town provides things like garbage pickup, community policing and a fire department, then please pay your taxes not out of a fear of prosecution but rather of a willingness to share the burden of what you benefit from.