This may seem like your last priority right now, but you also need to think about what's going to happen to you, when you're older. You're not working (and building up retirement savings or social security credits). As you get older and stay out of the workplace longer, it will be harder to get back. Your husband may be permanently disabled and unable to work. You didn't specifically mention money in your letter, but I'm guessing that you're using up your own savings in order to support yourself, your husband and your parents, at least to some extent.

You may think "that's not important, what's important is helping my loved ones". But just as other letter writers have mentioned that if you make yourself sick, you won't be able to help your family, the same is true of the practical side of things. If you bankrupt yourself now, you may end up in a very difficult situation later on, with no one to help you if you end up needing care later on.

When you make plans for the future, don't forget about your own financial future. It's not selfish to think about that.

Where do you suppose the students will be inclined to go, later on, when they're looking for sunglasses?

Unfortunately, probably not Google. I love Google for almost everything, but their shopping portal really needs improvement. I've been trying to use it ever since it started out as Froogle, and it's just not up to the same standards as the rest of Google. MSN's shopping site isn't much better, however. (There are some great tech shopping search sites, but if you're looking for something like sunglasses, I don't think any of the shopping portals do a good job.)

I'm not a big fan of "fashion advice". I don't care what's trendy or what the latest designer is selling this season. However, I'd like to see more discussion of what to wear to work, and that's surprisingly hard to find. For example, I was interested in the article about evening wear. I don't go out much, but every year my company has a Christmas party, and it's actually quite difficult to find evening wear that doesn't show any cleavage, especially if you have a very large bust. What looks modest if you're a B cup isn't so modest when you're a DDD. But it's not a subject I see in women's magazines - the clothes there are all about showing off your boobs, not covering them. The article at the Journal Woman site didn't have much specific advice for how to find appropriate evening wear, but perhaps in another article. (Although, I suspect anyone who reads the WSJ on a regular basis has a clothing budget that's way out of my league.)

As a childless, single woman, I don't necessarily relate to the articles about childcare and baby pictures (a Dad would probably find them more relevant than I would), but I found several of the articles on the site interesting, and they covered subjects I don't see in my normal work-related reading.

Academic literary criticism may be less popular. But I think there's more discussion about books now than there was 20 or 30 years ago, because of the internet. It's not all "thumbs up" Amazon reviews and snarky blog posts. There are web sites devoted to book reviews and discussion. The reviewers may not be paid, but most of them take it seriously and discuss the books with thought (although perhaps not in academic terms). There's a lot more discussion of genre fiction, which was mostly ignored by literary critics in the past. (It may not be the "great American novel", but it's what people are reading.) And in discussion groups and on web sites, there are heated discussions about book reviews, with comments from readers and reviewers.

It may not be the same as the academic criticism of the 1950's (or the 1850's) but this enthusiastic discussion of books shows that reading is still important to a lot of people.

Because, as we all know, no one ever had affairs before Sex and the City. If it's not on TV, it doesn't really exist, you know. (If only Anna Karenina had been on HBO!)

Bicycling may have started as a wealthy pastime, but it affected poorer women as well as wealthier ones. As bicycles became more accepted, prices came down so most people could afford one. It gave women the ability to work further away from home, so they could perhaps find a job with higher wages or better conditions. It led to women having more freedom to travel by themselves.

Bicycling also had a major influence on the Victorian dress reform movement. Even poor women who worked in factories were still expected to wear corsets and long skirts at that time. The popularity of bicycling made "reform" clothing more popular, and so it became more socially acceptable to wear bloomers, shorter skirts and less restrictive undergarmets.