Meredeth,

You are doing this on Purpose!!!!You have us all in a fever pitch by now and I know you're just laughing!!!!!!Eagle needs her rest, so you must come forward and tell all. Besides that, we can't have her regressing all the way back to ELVIS - that boy is a done deal.....(altho' he did leave quite a legacy..)

By the way Eagle, didn't you LOVE that movie "O Brother Where Art Thou?" Anyone else? MOST entertaining...

Searcher

I'll venture a guess at three....

Sorry for the lag time. I had a big craft fair this weekend and got lost preparing for it.

1. TRUE -- On my mother's side of the family, I come from a long line of cantors and rabbis and always thought I'd love to continue in that tradition. However, back in my high school days there was no such thing as a woman rabbi.

2. TRUE -- It always surprised me how many men wanted to be with me, because I'm the antithesis of everything feminine. I'm everything I was told a girl should NOT be, OK? And I kept getting marriage offers, and was really upset about all the guys who wanted to ruin a perfectly good relationship. I fully identified with the bumper sticker "So many men, so little time" but I didn't have a car to put it on.

3. FALSE -- From the first time I flew on a plane at age 12, I was absolutely in love with flying. In my dreams and in my writing, I can fly. However, in my 30s I didn't have the cash to take lessons, although I would've dearly loved to.

Eagle, get some sleep.

I would have gladly changed places with you on the flying lessons. I took them to get rid of my fear of flying...didn't work.

What a diverse and obviously, hot woman you are!

Meredith the magnificient! Say now you can't tell me all those men were wrong, not so! You my dear have a mysterious beauty that draws men to you, I've seen it before. I have a t-shirt with that saying on it. Only these days its the other way around, LOL

Thanks Dianne and Chatty!

I have to admit it really took me by surprise in my early 20s, although by my mid-20s I just accepted it. I was really shy once upon a time, and it did take a bit of getting used to. I was raised with that entire litany of "things that girls should do to get a boy interested" that we all were subjected to. Talk about HIS hobbies, etc. etc. I always felt like a fraud being so obviously fake, so I didn't do it. And the guys were probably happy that I wasn't like that! I guess I never bought into the status quo on any front.

Someone once told me that I wasn't particularly pretty, but I was beautiful. I kinda liked that. I think we all need to let our inner beauty shine through, and spend less time trying to look/act like everybody else, or the elusive artificial standard that's no one.

meredith, your post reminded me of something I had written on my eighth grade notebook. Be yourself...an original is better than a copy. DOn't ask me how I remembered that when I can hardly recall what I had for dinner last night.

Beautiful is more complimentary thatn pretty. Isn't it amazing how you've remembered that after all these years? It's a gentle reminder to me to continue saying kind words to our youth.