Hi Frannie!

My friend just turned 70 this year and she has a good thing going. She doesn’t want anything heavy or serious. They see each other on average a couple times a month. They have a GREAT time together. He’s 54 and HOT lol! She’s done a great job over the last few years of figuring out how to have romance and sex and all of that without feeling like she’s betraying her husband of 49 years. I mean FORTY NINE YEARS. And they had an excellent marriage. Hard times yes. But incredible compatibility.

I love a biography! And need a new book… will go get these before i have to hop on a plane tomorrow. On another note.. i’m reading a book you did NOT recommend lol. I read it in small snippets when i need help going to sleep. it’s Christopher Ciccione’s book about his sister Madonna. It actually cracks me up sometimes. There was just one part where in less than two pages he manages to complain sooo obviously about how when he traveled with Madonna as her dresser he had to stay in a normal hotel room like everyone else instead of a suite! HILARIOUS. I’m thinking "does this guy really think that he doesn’t come across as entitled, spoiled and bitter??". His sister might be spoiled but she earned it herself!

I met one of my best friends five years ago at a meeting for women motorcycle riders. We were standing out by our bikes chatting when she said that she’d lost her husband to cancer two years earlier. I’m not sure how i responded but whatever it was she hugged me and said thank you and mentioned that most people thought she should be "over it" by now. She’d been with her husbadn 49 years. They had a passionate and she’d never wished for another one. On a different day when we were stopped on our motorcycles at a little biker bar eating a burger I asked her what she thought about dating again and she said that she didn’t really think about it but boy would she like to get laid. I knew we’d be friends then. Another year or so went by and we were out with a group dancing one night. She went home with a single friend of ours in his fifties (robbing the cradle she said). A good looking guy who shared a lot of interests with her. I watched for another year while she kept her new boyfriend secret from her grown kids and her old friends afraid they’d believe she was betraying thier dad, their friend and the love of her love. My take was "screw them". She’d loved till the end and lost at death do us part and if her boy toy made her happy they could just deal. She took my advice. No one felt betrayed. And her boy toy enjoys the stories of her husband and their life together. And i’m soooo happy for her.

we’ve had this discussion on this board a couple of times. I just can’t get over that we haven’t legalized pot and prostitution yet. it’s just ludicrous. especially at a time when our country needs the revenue. stupidity.

How do you know for sure if someone has all those board certifications and is ACTUALLY a member of those associations? It appears to me that they all say they are in their advertising. Will the boards and associations just tell you? or is there a website? I had to have a hysterectomy this year and wanted my doc to be board certified in her speciality and couldn’t find her listed but was told that she was by the clinic she worked in?

I’d never paid much attention to Jerry Hall. I always thought that the woman who stayed with Mick Jagger all those years had to be… well… rather vacant. This woman is certainly not vacant. She sounds way to smart and interesting to have stuck with that man all those years and put up with his crap.

I always find it so strange when people have such strong feelings about a performer. someone they never really knew. I can understand Liz Taylor… she knew him and loved him. But for the general public.. the guy was a performer. an artist, a musician. We knew his music and his public persona.

Mr. Wow… do you have any insight into the plastic surgery thing with the jacksons? Michael isn’t the only one that is over the top in that family. It’ fascinates me… what he did to himself. And it fascinates me that the entire family has done at least some of it. What is that about?