I maintained a healthy correspondence with my first husband, and I organized all the letters by date (or postmark)…the entire correspondence.  I’m leaving them all to his sons…well, the two we have in common.  They’re both fine young men.  I am visiting the oldest of these two.  And this son of ours is very kind to his mother, and has recently presented her with a third granddaughter.  My youngest, my third son, who gave me two granddaughters in a heart-beat last year, will be joining us for Easter.  I have another whole trunkload of stuff…from HIS father that I’ll be leaving him and his sister…organized years ago…

I’m a romantic organizer.  What can I say?

All I know is that there’s very little creative thinking at work when it comes the punitive options available to our judiciary.  Incarceration seems to be the best idea we can come up with.  That, or extermination.  And it’s all just archaic.  All too often, even our school’s are distracted from their developmental purpose in order to idendify the next generation of the imprisioned.  I’m not saying there aren’t some human beings who are so dreadfully anomolous that they must remain restrained for the rest of their lives.  But we waste a lot of humanity applying antiquated forms of behavioral psychology on a population whose "crimes", in many cases, constitute nothing more than rational behavior given the insurmountable disadvantages built into their "home" environment.

Don’t know if I can count myself among the brainiacs, but I can answer a direct question.  I don’t know a thing about twittering and don’t feel like I have any need to learn about it.  Am I wrong?

But I must say, it is so heartwarming that you have actually come here to have a bit of a conversation with us, Jane.  Thanks for that touch.

Dear Ms. Wagner,

Surely, you jest.  While there’s no image quite so invigorating as the thought of you sitting at your drawing board, I love what you’ve done with this one.  It has the same ominous edge that stamp the other Care-toons I’ve found here on wowOwow, but the style, homage or no, really takes a grab at me.  So, I wouldn’t change a thing if I were you.

Maybe it’s just me.  I just finished Alice Sebold’s "The Lovely Bones" on the heels of Natasha Richardson’s senseless end, so I may still be feeling a bit unnerved by all the nonsense life throws at us.  But I did love the Care-toon.  What can you do but shudder and smirk.

Retire?  Surely, you jest.  I am just getting started!

"Planning for retirement" is one of the most oxymoronic phrases in the English language.  Plan a vacation.  Plan your next party.  But you don’t need a plan to fade into the woodwork.