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Hello Katiem! Your description of your neighbor is typical for someone who suffers from this disease. They always put on a happy face outward, but during those times when you can't even do that, you disappear, hiding from the world. Of course, this behavior can be very confusing. Some may find her behavior strange, and wonder what's wrong. I'm glad my Wiz helped you to understand better what your neighbor goes through. My love and blessings goes to her. If she ever needs to talk. . . I'm here. Thank you Katiem for your wonderful and supportive comment and your positive and loving thoughts. Gentle hugs from me to you!
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I go to (art) museums relatively often, but never been during a Night of the Museums: those long lines put me off, and I also think people should visit museums all the time, not only during that night. BUT I agree the concerts should be great fun, and after reading your article will try to get to various museums during the Nights of the Museums as well! :-)

Nice piece on Francis Davis Millet. I would have loved to see more images on the page :-)

Gotta love Elton John, he's so talented and had such a good vibe about him. Saw him in concert not too long ago, and he's quite the showman, loves to interact with the audience, and works that piano with a vengeance :-)

I, too, think that making fruit salad is one of the most appetizing ways to get your fruit! Thank you, betsuz, hope you will be posting more articles like this one soon! :-)

Yes, carrots are packed with vitamins and minerals :-) Thank you for your article!

It was fun reading this article. Look forward to more sports articles!

Right. I, too, believe we should address our suffering, in whatever form it comes, and not sweep it under the carpet. Thank you for your article!

Ooops sorry! Last night went yampy. But I'm here now.

*jumps in time machine and goes back nearly 20 years* Me and my friend went to self defense classes at the University. It was all basic stuff, but it gave us a lot of confidence out on the streets.

A few weeks later, we were really to put it to the test. We managed to thwart being abducted.

My friend is Asian and, after Uni, she was destined to have an arranged marriage. She didn't want one. She wrote to her parents to say as much. Next thing we know, they were on our doorstep (we were house-mates). Lots of pleading and emotional stuff later, she was persuaded to get into the car.

But she didn't trust the promises that she was hearing and asked me and a male friend to come too.

All three of us got into the car and we were driven, not to the restaurant as planned, but to a quiet road. There was a transit van waiting. Her mother rushed to open my friend's door, but I'd had the foresight to surreptitiously lock it. My side was open. They had to wait for me and my male friend to get out before they could make a grab for their daughter.

There were three large men and a large-ish woman (all family members) trying to get to my friend. The male with us was immediately side-lined. I was ignored because I'm tiny and female. Slight error there.

Both me and my friend used our self defense to really good effect. We were beaten and battered, but we are using tricks learned in those classes not to be dragged into that van. We could hear her father saying, in Punjabi, that he was going to hit me over the head with a jack. They'd take me too and dump me in a service station.

Just then, the police arrived. We were all taken safely to the cells and got medical treatment.

My friend never did go home. She eventually married a man of her own choice up here; and lived as happily ever after as reality allows.

I'm not telling this story to make any judgement on how different cultures sort out their marriages. It was merely to demonstrate how a 5ft 3" girl, weighing 7 stone 2 oz at the time, could fend off all comers. It was all due to self defence classes.

Thank you very much for your insight.

Would you recommend trying various niches to see what works? Or focusing on just one for which you have a passion?

Develop a feel is precisely how it is. There's also the simple fact that passion works: writing about something that matters that few people have written about is a sure way of getting targeted traffic. And, of course, if it suddenly turns big - that's great. Often it doesn't of course: there's a reason niche is niche and not mainstream. But once a niche starts growing, those who started in it before it got big do have a head start.

I concur! :)

Hmm nice :)

It's the same sort of principle, but much bigger. I'm resting my whole hand, in a natural position, on top of it. There are pads you can buy too, which fix on the bottom, if you want to support your wrist more. I've not really seen the need with the size of this!

Wow that's neat! Looks great too :) Like an external touch pad (Somewhat)