Glad you're doing well. I haven't checked in with you in a long time. You're a doctor, well, I'm having SEVERE back pain in my lower back. Percocet isn't touching it, lots of back spasms. On Monday here (tomorrow as I know you're on the other side of the world and way ahead of us in hours), I have Cortisone injections. I am supposed to be getting a pension because of the arthritis - but keep getting denied. I guess they will give it to me if I have surgery and then become paralyzed perhaps. Anyway, I am so fed up with things in America I will leave if I do get published. I am aiming for Spain or perhaps another Meditteranean country like France or Greece. I lived overseas before and was pleasantly surprised how kind people were, I got homesick for the States, came back and immediately wanted to be overseas again after about a month or two but haven't been financially able to do it. Many of you may be too young to know this but when I left for the Philippines music videos on TV were nonexistent, and when I returned in July 1983, they were all the rage even having half hour programs on Los Angeles local stations specifically dedicated to only music videos. Of course, as time has passed music videos again have become almost obsolete as so little new music is made in America these days except in the 'country' genre. Anyway, I loved living in a tropical place and the people were so nice to me and I was so popular with the girls when I was young too there - unlike now where American women are looking first at a man's wallet only... Keep dieting. Write down EVERYTHING you eat. Carbs, calories, etc. in time it WILL work, exercise if you can. Being overweight is not a sentence you're stuck with. Once you see you might be eating two servings of something at a meal the next time you can cut it to one. I wish you well Anita, it is good to hear you sound so optimistic too. Optimism is contagious! Blessings, glenn