Having known and seen "the military" well, I have to agree. I’d have been kicked out! Lila had to do something to survive.

If women want to feel, watch some of the movies from the early 70s, and think and watch (i.e: Up the Sandbox - 1972). Reality will hit you in the face if you’re "real."

Mark - "you’re weird!" ;0)) Ok, I’m from MI, and to this day, I cringe when the temperature drops, or there is a reason for an early darkness where I life now - it depresses me. It may be ‘memories’ of "those times," granted, and I’m well-aware of that, but cold???? UG.

OTOH, people congregrate and survive together in MI, the mid-west, and east coast than those the other-side-of-the-Mississippi. I credit that to cold weather. We are a far heartier bunch, overall.

But, I do not like cold weather, and worse, I hate coats. The only way I got myself over that part of it was to puchase an incredible coat one year with a high, thick Mandarin collar and deep cuffs of Persian Lamb … ahhhh that was lovely enough to wear in the summer (I still have it!). And, people can hate others for wearing fur, but to me fur is the only thing that guarantees that I will not shiver under any circumstances - great for downtown Chicago in the depths of a winter night. 

Ahhhh, yes, EKA - especially the end of the first week in October headed North out of Boston! I still cherish the trays of slides I have from those trips (breaks from studies and work), and can still imagine the crisp, humid air that forced the leaves to emit the scent they built up during the color changes as they stuggled to "hold on" as cold approached. Lovely.

Let’s meet at an Inn for supper sometime. (don’t I wish!)

Many people were going to Germany in the late 1990s for their hyperthermal cancer therapy, and radio waves was another option. I remember friends wanting me to go there but I told them to send my oncologist, because once he found that those treatments worked, he’d be a US millionaire overnight. I needed to cure, and heal.

Drew Gilpin Faust was interviewed on Charlie Rose last night, and one of her serious concerns about people today is lack of attention span. This is obvious, as Faust went on, in talking to people, and youth who cannot carry on a thought process or conversation without permitting distractions.

Multitasking is new to society, and thrown at consumers before the majority have learned how to not only use it, but know what to buy so that the technology best serves their needs; hence, people are blitzed with communication ‘tools,’ and yet cannot stop, relax, read a book, and certainly never relax and listen to an opera without wires coming from their heads. It is very sad.

http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/6754

Here! Here! BRAVO, BABY!!!

Except, "The Taliban" are a grossly exaggerated "group" - and we must not fall for all we hear or read. Were it so simple to rid that region of "The Taliban" … but ‘they’ are many more fighters, not aka "The Taliban!"