One time when I was sitting in the kitchen with my mom, my dad came in and started to make some potato salad. After he cut up the potatoes, eggs and a bit of green onion, he turns to my mom and I and asks if we would prefer mayonnaise or miracle whip; a lot or a little. My mom and I politely said, "mayonnaise, just a bit." My mom and dad make a pretty good potato salad so I was really looking forward to it. When it was served, my first impression was, "Whoa! That's a lotta mayo!" Af...

I have been planning since last May to go to a writer's conference in May in Daytona. Since I started to write seriously (as in career not topic), I have tried to make this kind of thing a priority. Everyone in my family knows this. But with bills piling up (condo to be repaired, tax re-assessment), it was getting chancy if I could go at all. Then the happy straw that broke the camels back on that one-- my sister is getting married this summer. I wouldn't be able to afford to go to Nor...