I would love to participate in your conversations. Thank you for the opportunity.

A Smart Idea for Cell Phone Users - ICE There is an email going around on the internet that I received today and I thought the WowoWow forum would be a good place to share it. Here it is: We all carry our cell phones with names & numbers stored in its memory but nobody, other than ourselves, knows which of these numbers belong to our closest family or friends. If we were to be involved in an accident or were taken ill, the people attending us would have our phone but wouldn’t know who to call. Yes, there are hundreds of numbers stored but which one is the contact person in case of an emergency? Hence this ‘ICE’ (In Case of Emergency) Campaign The concept of ‘ICE’ is catching on quickly. It is a method of contact during emergency situations. As cell phones are carried by the majority of the population, all you need to do is store the number of a contact person or persons who should be contacted during emergency under the name ‘ICE’ ( In Case Of Emergency). The idea was thought up by a paramedic who found that when he went to the scenes of accidents, there were always mobile phones with patients, but they didn’t know which number to call. He therefore thought that it would be a good idea if there was a nationally recognized name for this purpose. In an emergency situation, Emergency Service personnel and hospital Staff would be able to quickly contact the right person by simply dialing the number you have stored as ‘ICE.’ For more than one contact name simply enter ICE1, ICE2 and ICE3 etc. A great idea that will make a difference! Let’s spread the concept of ICE by storing an ICE number in our mobile phones today!!! ICE will speak for you when you are not able to.

WowOWow. Please find some way to highlight recent additions to older posts especially when they are a reply to a previous post. The discussions could get deeper if there was a way to know someone posted a reply without having to rescroll and rescan all of the dialog.

I apologize to all for my terrible typing- I try to preview but I cannot edit on the preview screen and then I am back to the 2-3 small font “Talk to us” box and try to catch my typos. I guess I need to slow down but the volume of interesting comments makes me rush through my 2 cents. I will try to do better, ladies.

We need to use the internet to make us get active in the real world, back out into the gritty, cold or hot communities where we live. What happened to our non-fighting spirit when we went up against the Vietnam War???? Isn’t this the time to do all that and more since we’re supposedly older and wiser and we have children and grandchildren either fighting and sometimes lamentably dying in the Iraq War???? Or how about the “progress” we are or are not making in civil rights; how can the Jen 6 happen in 2007???? Are we too much in our heads and if so should we not connect once again with our guts and our hearts to embrace one another and honor peace and brother/sisterhood?

I’ve been ill for several years. The way I change the world is to visit thehungersite.com everyday. One click provides an extra cup of rice somewhere in the world where food is insufficient.

On the Microlevel: I’m a professional who works full-time in the corporate world. I’m thinking of going back to school part-time at night. Law school or graduate school. I’m 48 years old. I’d like to talk with peers who have pursued advanced degrees later in life. Do you know of a website or blog that I could visit to find such a peer group?

Suzanne de Cornelia , What was that email or website you told us to email you our ideas? It is so difficult to go back and find comments on this site. There should be a way to click on a posters name and get all of their postings - only their postings. I know this site is new but as the volume and dialog increase it is getting very very time consuming - too time consuming for busy women (who have a lot to contribute).

Here’s a neat idea for people trying to determine where they would like to land in retirement. I found out about it at a retirement seminar where I teach (Gallaudet University in DC). http://www.findyourspot.com/ But before you go, check out the tax structure first.

It’s really important in adopting a Middle East policy that the U.S. acts as a fair broker to both the Israelis and the Palestinians. At the same time, we should bring pressure to bear on Israel so that some of their actions are put in check. They’ve occupied Palestinian lands for decades and it’s time they stop their settlements. I also recommend either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton add to their foreign policy teams Dennis Ross who has vast experience negotiating with the Israelis and the Palestinians and who could be instrumental in obtaining a peace agreement. Dennis has worked on the Middle East problem during the administrations of two presidents, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

Daughters-in-Law (DILs) - April 11, 2008 I just wrote this letter to the author of “Forced to Be Family,” a book on Relational Aggression (RA) among women in the same family. “Cheryl, your book has come as close to any I’ve found to brush up against RA and daughters-in-law (DILs). I’m going through Diagnosis and Treatment Plan/Action Plan with your book, yet suspect I must do something more directly on point. PLEASE, more specifically write (or do a podcast, or SOMETHING), on DILs, i.e., a chapter on Special Strategies for Daughter-In-Law RA. While I’m trying to apply all the chapters on this situation, I just know these relationships are extremely complex and therefore can’t directly apply your analogies to a DIL situation. The (western-culture) world, in love with the bad Mother-In-Law script, makes it easy to find strategies for aggressive/bullying MILs. I’m so worn out trying to be “good,” “reasonable,” “loving,” “inviting,” or just plain polite that I want to crawl away and give up, and am very close to it. My son(s) seem to have gone from “son” to “distant blood relative(s).” I’m hurt and grieving the loss, and the losses never gained… Desperate for help and information on this particular twist to family, I’ve begun asking questions among friends and am finding that this (aggressive/bullying) DIL stuff is just not talked about, and there’s certainly some GREAT discomfort on the part of the women I have asked to share their (shameful) story. Coming wired with a critical unpleasable mother where everything I do or am is defective, I now find I am a defective MIL too! Help! Jo-Ann Ash Fairbanks 04/11/2008 Target-Victim