Good God, Christine! Have you no shame? I guess when you were writing the lesbian passage your hands were too busy to hit the return key to start a new paragraph.

Seriously. I love your writing even when you go off the rails. And ,when I'm done with medium (which we both know could be any minute or day), I'll still come back to read you.

With respect to moms, I never let my mother know I was getting prosecuted by the federal government and might go to prison. I was deathly afraid she would die while I was locked up.

Mercifully, she died before I went in (age 94). I got to say goodbye - and she never knew. While the feds were floating my money interest-free, they inadvertently did me a favor. Go figure!

Say hi to mom. If I lived in California, I'd offer you a free ride in my old cab out to the cemetery.