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Yes, the prolific little bugger is well into Winter Tiger - and I am doing my damned best to catch up. At this rate maybe by Thanksgiving!

Neat!

Some people take hints well. Others need a Louisville slugger to get through to.

You do like to draw the reader in with hints and intrigue! Well done sir!

Enjoy! Hope you have a fantastic day with those you care about!

If you catch even one kid and keep him/her from falling through the cracks, then you have done much more than a lot of people who call themselves educators. Burning out is easy though. Take time for yourself and keep balance in your life. You can't help them if you end up in a bad place yourself!

Takes a pretty secure person to be able to share ones soul mate with another lover, even if the other is related! I makes sense that such an amplified and extended use of psychic power would have unexpected effects like physical aging. While doc's have not quite figured out why some people age sooner and/or faster than others, logically the deeper you draw on the reserves the faster the aging. And of course - this one was a double whammy since there were two of them that needed to be silenced.

In your chapter end notes you asked: Should I continue the story line Two words for ya - Hell Yes!

Over qualified is a cop out that really means "I have a nephew who needs a job"! Hang in there Wayne - you have friends like us who will always listen when you need to vent!

Enjoy your day!

I guess that would depend on if you equate purity and innocence. He has certainly lost the latter.

Sunday school teacher huh? That may explain some of the disapproving attitude we have seen the man display! Looks to me like Chad isn't the only character has some learning about life to do. Nicely done sir. I can easily picture the look on Peterson's face. All i need do is substitute a mans features in the look my mom gave the dancer the first time I took her to a male review and the gent would not let her put his tip in his hand.

What is it you told me? Want something done fast? Ask someone who is already too busy - or words to that effect.

Will Brad never learn? Being a parent I appreciate the urge to protect your child, but I also know you can only do your best to teach them right from wrong and then trust them to make the right decisions. That and be there to pick up the pieces if they fall.

Something was said in my hearing this morning that makes me want to sound off. A supposedly learned man made a very sweeping statement that condemned an entire group of people. It was a basic case of prejudice, but rather than an ethnic group or the gay community, it was pretty much anyone who did not hold a college degree from the "right" university that he was condemning. Why do people feel they have a right to pass judgment on people they neither know nor care to find out about? There is no way the man this morning could have possibly spoken to so much as a tiny fraction of the people involved in the slight, let alone been able to make a judgment as to if they are educated. Yet he felt confident enough in his knowledge to make sweeping statements condemning a group of literacy volunteers. Seems no one, in his opinion, should be "teaching" without a degree. Uneducated rubes, as he called us, have no place being literacy volunteers. Well please allow me to offer my “uneducated opinion”. It is uneducated as while i did attend a well respected university, I never completed university study. Life simply got in the way. But life itself is an educator, and when a man who is young enough to be my son gets so overwhelmingly pompous, I find it difficult to resist the urge to turn him over my knee and educate him on basic etiquette. Think before you speak. God, or Allah, or Jehovah, or whomever it is you believe in gave you a brain for a reason, use it! I would like to think your mother would be as appalled as I was at the way you put down an entire group of people. In this case it was a group of volunteers who put in a large amount of time to try and help people who want to better themselves and improve their reading skills. You don't need to be a university professor to teach reading to the illiterate or to someone for whom English is a second language. Gee I wonder what it would be called if someone hated that much on a group of gay men or an ethnic group instead of less skilled volunteers. Wait – there is a term for that, isn't there? It’s called “Bigot”. Yes, I know on the grand scale badmouthing a bunch of literacy volunteers falls way below homophobia or ethnic prejudices. Please don't yell at me for the comparison. I just feel bigotry in any form needs to be addressed and eliminated.

At the time of his demise, Brian Parnell was 27. That makes him just a tad young to be a father to this particular Parnell,as he would have been about 12 or 13 at the time of this one's birth. But as others have said, we have no idea how many cousins could have youngsters now, any number of whom while having no real claim to the fame and fortune of either the Crampton or Hendrickson families may still resent the removal of the only link they might have had to the potential riches.

I told myself I was not going to allow you to draw me into a personalized argument like we have had in the past, but I can't not comment on this one. Being a little older than the average reader in this forum, I have many friends who are on second marriages, some after divorces and some after losing partners to untimely deaths. The combining of families is always difficult. The parents who assumed their teens were not mature enough to have input on the blending of the families are the ones who had the major difficulties. Those that allowed the teens to "have input in the adults lives" as you put it are the ones who settled into happy combined families. As I have said before - there are very few black and white issues in life. Every single individual on the planet needs to be dealt with INDIVIDUALLY, and that means they can be incredibly mature about some things and totally childish about others, and their chronological age has very little to do with it.

Can he find lost things around rhe house too?

The slow seduction continues, both between Alex and JJ and author and reader. You have chosen to build the drama in this book more slowly than some of the others, and you have us all sitting back and guessing where you are going to go next. Well done, sir! I have yet to decide if I should be amused by the predicament the boys found themselves in with a broken handcuff key in hand, or feel sorry for them. Panic would be close to unavoidable I think. I have little respect for that coach, and even less for the team doctor. All for the team is a great concept if it applies to everyone, but obviously the team management was willing to sacrifice Zach's ankle, with the possibility of his entire career, for the sake of the teams winning streak. That a medical professional charged with the overall health of the team would allow Zach to play so soon after a severe sprain leaves me wondering if he is concerned with the health and well being of the players, or with that of the stats.

Does anyone else wonder if that skating coaches kids were a subject of his unwanted sexual attention? Hopefully JJ has a better grip on things after several years of therapy. Just cause we haven't been hearing about it doesn't mean it stopped, especially after 9-11

I haven't been around a long time but I have been here long enough t know I don't want your job! Thanks for everything you do.Happy GAniversary

A M/D complex may have been seen as a "straight thing" in the past, but who is to say things haven't changed and evolved. I am old enough to remember when AIDS was a "gay thing" and the general belief was that if you were straight you didn't need to worry about getting the horrible disease. We all know better now after years of additional research. The world just simply is NOT black and white. There are various degrees to just about everything. Is getting a second room in Zach's hotel prudent? Probably not but time will tell. Teens who think they are in love, whether they really are or not, do stupid things. If they didn't things like STD's and teen pregnancies would be much less prevalent. Will and Zach don't have the corner on that market, it is indicative of teen behavior everywhere. Will just has more money to play with in the process. The only thing I see as "wrong" with Alex and JJ is the disparity in maturity and experience. JJ may be older than Will, but emotionally he is way behind him. I can see him getting really hung up on Alex, something that will eventually come to an end when Alex is expected to marry and produce an heir. Even if Alex treats him like gold until then, it will still be one hell of a blow to JJ when it finally happens.

Oh good lord - an elf out to celebrate? TAKE COVER! Have a super great day.

I think in this case, given the Crampton/Shulter/Hayes family history, the garden may not be out of the question. I am picturing under some grand memorial to Robbie in a botanical garden in Claremont.

I have to agree with impunity - I can feel the pressure building before the storm breaks. There is so much potential for offal to hit the air circulation device. Waiting to see what hits first and how hard is going to be sweet torture.