Liz to live like you for one day would be a blessing, you’ve given of yourself so openly to the arts, and culture, and intelligence  of this country.

I remember being a very young girl sitting with her mom watching Tommy Tune on Dean Martin’s show.  I had the biggest crush on him for ever, I use to pretend to be a Gold Digger and I’d dance all around the room pretending to dance with Tommy. :)

Well Grace lets see?  Yes she’s suppose to be representing the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA where freedom of speach be it written or verbal is a very honored gift to most of us.  That gives me the right to state my opinon without getting bashed by
others.  She was the rep for NY state and didn’t do anything she promised to do, at least where I lived.  So now she’s out there representing us to forigen nations looking butch.  (nothing against my many Gay Friends and family).   

How hard can it be  to take some time and find clothes that look femine instead of like the representative from Rhode Island!!

Ms. Wells I’m going to date myself here :)  Did yall have a popcorn/peanut vender who’d come down your street with a cart selling roasted peanuts and acorns, or popcorn?

My fondest memories as a child was being at Nanna Maude’s and after eating her pancakes made in the shape of animals with hot home-made maple syrup.  Papa would sit outside with us waiting for him to come on down the street (he didn’t have a monkey :)  ).  Then on the weekends Mr. Softee would come with his ice cream truck with the best tasting soft ice creams in a really cool cone.

I love thinking about that part of my live, I was young, happy, and had a ball playing at Nanna’s and Papa’s.  They had a way of making you feel special and so very loved.

Deber, Thank your for your concern.  I’ve been fighting cancer (4 different kinds) for the last 27 years.  I’m in remission now but it was touch and go with the Breast Cancer, I just past the five yr mark only to find another tumor this past summer.  I underwent chemo for 2 months for safe keepings and it’s seems to have done the trick.  But I am being closely monitored at Duke Medical in Durham NC.  I am very lucky in regards to the surgery and treatments has allowed me to go on. I’ve had a total of 21 operations to date.

Next monday I will 54, an age I wasn’t sure I’d see for a long time.  There is no genic reason for me having cancer, I’ve been told it’s due to things I was exposed to while in the Navy and living in base housing (worse then some projects), environment has a lot to do with my illness.

Regardless to say I can no longer work, sometimes I can’t even walk far without pain.  I’ve been delt some bad hands, but my faith and will to live have keep me around.  I’ve only a few goals left that I want to achieve and the most important one is being a Grandma :)

Frannie I let the my pray team know your son is coming home and they just like me are so happy for your entire family.

I joined the Navy at the end of Vietnam, I never got to go overseas and regret the fact I didn’t.  Not to a war zone mind you but to a duty station in England, France, Italy, or Japan would have been great.  My x-husband was overseas a total of 10 times in our 22 1/2 yr marriage, he missed all the good stuff with the kids, first step, first tooth, loss of first tooth, boy scouts, girl scouts.  He was in Beirut when the barracks were blow up and I was fighting with the military to get him home because I had cancer and just delivered a 9 lb baby boy, I needed him with me because I had no one to help with an infant and toddler, but he refused to come home because if he’d come home early when I was on my way back to health he’d have to go back.  It was pure selfishness on his part.  But with my faith and finally help from his family we made it through.  When he finally came home our son was 6 mo’s old but as big as a one yr.  old. 

When I got out of the Navy I remained on active duty reserve, so I got called back every few yrs to do what I do and it all counted towards my pension. But when I wasn’t active duty it didn’t matter because I worked for the military in a civilian job. The only real benefit was I got to dress like a woman and not like one of the guys on a ship.  We only wore our dress uniforms when we were in parades or on active reserve duty.

Maybe that is why I think a woman should dress like a woman (i.e. dresses, skirts), and show her femine side.  Pant suits (some not all) are not my idea of how a woman should dress. Another reason is because I grew up with "leave it to beaver" and Mrs. Cleaver, the beach party movies and my ultimate fav of that time period Doris Day.  They always looked so nice.

I guess I should have been born 10 yrs earlier, my views would have fit the time.  lol :)

Frannie I let the my pray team know your son is coming home and they just like me are so happy for your entire family.

I joined the Navy at the end of Vietnam, I never got to go overseas and regret the fact I didn’t.  Not to a war zone mind you but to a duty station in England, France, Italy, or Japan would have been great.  My x-husband was overseas a total of 10 times in our 22 1/2 yr marriage, he missed all the good stuff with the kids, first step, first tooth, loss of first tooth, boy scouts, girl scouts.  He was in Beirut when the barracks were blow up and I was fighting with the military to get him home because I had cancer and just delivered a 9 lb baby boy, I needed him with me because I had no one to help with an infant and toddler, but he refused to come home because if he’d come home early when I was on my way back to health he’d have to go back.  It was pure selfishness on his part.  But with my faith and finally help from his family we made it through.  When he finally came home our son was 6 mo’s old but as big as a one yr.  old. 

When I got out of the Navy I remained on active duty reserve, so I got called back every few yrs to do what I do and it all counted towards my pension. But when I wasn’t active duty it didn’t matter because I worked for the military in a civilian job. The only real benefit was I got to dress like a woman and not like one of the guys on a ship.  We only wore our dress uniforms when we were in parades or on active reserve duty.

Maybe that is why I think a woman should dress like a woman (i.e. dresses, skirts), and show her femine side.  Pant suits (some not all) are not my idea of how a woman should dress. Another reason is because I grew up with "leave it to beaver" and Mrs. Cleaver, the beach party movies and my ultimate fav of that time period Doris Day.  They always looked so nice.

I guess I should have been born 10 yrs earlier, my views would have fit the time.  lol :)

When my beautiful son was a baby I got him a Big Bird, when he was 2 I got him the Bed Time Big Bird, it came with tapes and books,  so the child could read along with the Talking Big Bird.

Thanks to Sesame Street both my kids were counting before 4, reading by 4, and new how to speak spanish to some extent.

When my Son was small I started buying him the cast iron character cars and the carry case, he used them until he was about 9 (transformers came along), well when he and his wife moved into their first home my house warming gift was his Big Bird and his set of cars.

A few days after that he called to tell me how much those cars were worth, I had no idea when I bought them they’d be a collectors item 25 years later.

I knew my children were learning watching Sesame Street and I allowed them to watch it all they wanted.

Thanks for the memories Joan and Sesame Street. :)

I want to say "WHY TO GO YANKEES"

I’m from south of N. Falls NY a little town called Angola, and I’m a Yankees fan, I’ve never been to an actual game but I enjoy watching them on TV.

My son is a Mets fan, but then again it’s a NY team.

Yeah YANKEES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Deber, when I left home and joined the Navy pot smoking was done everywhere.  You couldn’t go to a concert with out getting high just because your in the same Auditorium as them.  My older sister took me to a concert when I was 16 and told me if I didn’t try her pot cigarette she was going to leave me there.  I wouldn’t and she left me in Canada with no way home.  After leaving home I found out she had turned my younger siblings on to smoking it (nine and ten yrs younger then me), two of those siblings still smoke the stuff.

I tried it a few times when I was young and I didn’t like the way it made me feel, in fact I hated the way it made me feel, the hangover was worse then from booze.

The only time in my life I smoked Pot on a regular basis was when I was going through chemo, and I’ll be honest, I hated it, but it was the only thing that kept me from ralphing nonstop, and it helped me to eat, because for six months I couldn’t eat without it.  But once the chemo/radiation was over with, whatever was left was flushed and I’ve not smoked any since.

I don’t think it should be legal, it’s bad enough we have drunk drivers on the road, we don’t need stoned ones as well.

Frannie, I’ve been praying for your son’s safe passage home, I’m extremely happy for both you and him.  As we have spoke before you know I was in the Navy, He’ll have some adjustments to make when he gets home.  Some advice if I may, I don’t know If he lives with you or if he’s married, you never said, but here goes:

1.  Make him his favorite foods

2.  Listen if he needs to talk, and please for your sake, don’t ask questions, let him come to you, many troops who are coming home don’t have a supportive family that will allow them to talk and just be there to listen.

3.  Give him all the time he needs to get back into the swing of things, if he’s lucky he will be able to get right back into living outside the military.

4.  Just show him how much you love him, and leave the healing up to him and who ever he calls his "Higher Power", only give advice when asked.

War takes a lot out of our troops, some bounce right back, others take time.  Have the local VA hospital number handy just in case it is needed.  For both physical and mental health.

 I’m really very happy for you and I’ll be praying for your son.

As for Ms. Clinton I prefer to see a woman in service to her country wear a dress, skirt once in a while, it shows she’s famine, Even in the Military women have to wear skirts, especially those working in an embassy, on recruiting duty, in parades, it’s required. Remember back to the Clinton era, many thought she was gay, while being gay doesn’t bother me one way or the other, some in the media thought she looked butch.

R. J., first thank you for the education, I really didn’t know what it meant.

Second, I will bend on the skirt, dress issue, but Mrs. Clinton does dress properly, but couldn’t she mix it up some, pant suits went out in the eighty’s.  Just an update to her wardrobe would be a good thing.

She was the rep.  for my home town area in NY and she did a semi-good job (by saying that I mean she wasn’t in office long enough to keep her promises to the people, she was running for Pres.  and that took all of her time.)

The Gorilla statement was over the top, and why I chose that image I don’t know, might have been my trip to the zoo the day I made the comment.

But she needs to update her wardrobe for no one but herself.

R.J., I agree to an extent.  But when you go to an office and the first person you see is a nicely dressed male or female, the person entering gets it’s first impression of the business/agency from the first encounter they make.

When I was working my cloths were an issue, we were given a dress code and we did not dare try anything new.  Especially when we were meeting with those in authority, we needed to make a good impression.  Men wear suits mostly, especially those in the gov’t, or gov’t contractors, doctors offices, and if your lucky enough to have a job that has a lack dress code be grateful.  Think   about the kids and older Americans who work at McDonalds, Walmart, Kmart, they all have strick dress codes, and some uniforms.  Then you have doctors and nurses who wear scrubs, or uniforms and they have to wear them, but when their out in the public eye most dress to the nines to show pride in themselves.

Being educated and holding a good job is the dream of all people I’ve known through out my life and if a uniform isn’t required then they dress nice so people can see the pride they have for themselves and the jobs they perform.

I wore a Navy Uniform for years and when I went to work at the for the government I dressed to show my pride in myself and my accomplishments.  When I’d get off work I had to go home and change for my second job at Sears and put on an entirely different outfit, when working for the Military non-active duty you are expected to wear clothes that are up to the standards of the active duty military, and then working at Sears I’d be over dressed and have to go and dress down for my shift.

I know first hand from being a government employee working with people in power and as a Mom of two kids dressing for whatever situation I’d find myself in.  Clothes do say an awful lot about the person, male or female. They show our bosses, subordinates, children, church family how we view ourselves.

Sorry Rachel, first I don’t know what IMHO means, second I’m not discounting her abilitys as a statesperson, or her accomplishments.  But she’s wears PANTS suits more then any other woman in the public eye has ever done.  A nice dress, or a skirt suit, maybe even a nice print, but that coat she wore, and the oh so plain, drab outfits, she needs a stylist.  Granted Jackie O was a First lady but she was the Best Dressed First Lady in our time.  Clinton needs to take a page out of her style book. 

R.J. people in this country live to see what so in so is wearing, mostly because we can.  Most of us will never be able to dress like the movie stars or politicians and their spouses, so we dream, and when we see someone in the public eye wearing such horrible cloths and were given a chance to say something we do.

I was a professional woman my entire adult working life, and I dressed as well as my income and family obligations afforded.  I achieved equality in my field, both in rank and pay, and now I can sit back and laugh at the pretty lady in the ugly cloths.

Would you wear a gunny sack and expect to be treated with respect?  Go on national TV w/ one on and see the reaction you get.  Many of these women look to the public to let them know how we perceive them and their cloths.

Jackie O. was a perfect example of exactly what I’m saying, she set the trend for all the following women in the role of First Lady and a nation changed the way they dressed to mirror her.