Stuff

Hello:
1. For all of you who are interested I settled on a Live Chat Date on My Mother's Rules. It is going to happen on:

Wednesday March 11, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

Chuck says all you have to do is go to my website www.judgelynn.com at the appointed hour and click on the live chat button. Don't bother looking now, it isn't there yet.

2. Someone asked me how I maintain my emotional composure during the show when people start to cry etc when I am telling them something. My answer is PRACTICE! I have a point to make. I make it. Then I deal with the ramifications of that point once I am through. Without that steady state view of things I won't be able to stay on point. Moreover, it takes a minute to understand what the other person took from what you said. You can't just go by facial espressions. People laugh, cry, grimace - whatever- for very different reasons. You have to ask. You have to examine. Sometimes they didn't understand you at all. Then you have to start over.

3. Your girl made a smoking dinner last night. Everybody came back for seconds! Am I the queen of my castle or what?

4. I'll be doing a segment on NPR's News and Notes TODAY at 1:40 pm EST on Domestic Violence. Listen in.

5. I read this quote the other day and I thought I would share it: "It is a modern day tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen and hope so few." Oscar Hammerstein II.

He talked about being happy. Then he listed all of the reasons he could chose not to be happy. His many failures. All of the people he's known and loved who had died. The international cold war that was going on at the time (1950's) when every one was afraid of a nuclear war that at the time was a real and omnipresent danger. But in so doing he said that would require him to leave out the blessings of good health and the people he loved who are still here and the "sucesses that have sprouted among [his] many failures" and the joy of walking in the sunshine. This is my new PIP.
Which is why I chose to share with you last night's culinary success!

Here's wishing you
Peace and happiness.