I once read about a culture where women weren’t considered marriageable until they had given birth. That way, there was little doubt that the union would result in children. Some men on this planet aren’t bothered by their partners’ sexual experience.

I hear you. My husband is quite ill with MM. We really don’t need anything else to worry about right now.

I have a sneaking suspicion that Greenland doesn’t want us either! Who’d want to be a monkey in this circus?

Never having to wonder if the people who are kind to me are secretly hoping to get at my money. That and the freedom to wander around in public anonymously.

The decline of our own planet shows we can’t terraform Earth very well, let alone a more hostile planet like Mars. That being said, there are better ways to help the needy than to defund science.

I tell one cat that I’m sorry but I have to go. The other one gets a stern “Stay out of trouble.” That one will stare back at me with a look that says, “You wish.”

Audiobooks. You either love them or you hate them, and I definitely love them.

Boneless ribs

Also, if your school board or city hall is talking about instituting book bans, make a call, send an email or go to the meeting.

My husband has had 17 blood transfusions this year as his cancer has gotten worse. We are quietly grateful to everyone who donates. You have literally kept him alive while the treatments have kicked in.

On the other side of that spectrum, Mark Twain’s editor once sent him a handwritten page of commas because, the editor said, Twain seemed to have run out.