Welcome to the species known as 'humanicus frustratus'' WINK. Excellent little ditty!! Btw - I think Miss Oprah has done much for society. But, she loses me when she tells the ladies, "Be who you are and be proud of it" (While wearing fake hair, false eyelashes, the best clothes designers money can buy, and enough make up to make one forget her actual looks). SMILE. One step at a time, kind soul. T.P.

Great story - seems very familiar, only I ain't got kids, I got over being overweight and I didn't use chocolate, but beer. I stopped when I met a guy really worth wile and my family doctor gave me some hints concerning my blood pressure being "just a lil bit" high for my age, and a possibility of "popping off out of the blue". Thank God for docs who don't use euphemisms!

An acquaintance of mine, can't exactly call her a friend for the delight she took in ripping my stories, entered writing contests, and won several - you know the "first chapter and three-page synopsis variety (and never finished). Did that for years. Two young kids and pilot for a husband, she had her hands full. But writing was her obsession. At long last she closed the door and wrote, and wrote, and re-worked the piece until finished. She won the Writers Digest award that year and had her Romance novel published by a major house. The trick, she said, was in keeping the door closed. p.s. Oh, my stories needed to be laid bare, but I could have done without her glee -- Dick