clare, thank you for the compliments, and i would love to accept them. But it is all lreally Porky. Frpm the moment he cloimbed out of that box in the storeroomo under the stairs -pwell, the words just flowed. He tells me what to say. and i polish it up a little - grammar, syle and so on. Actually, come to think of it, I did once get paid for writing - but that was more of a farce than anything else. I, Hilary Blue, the total computer-illiterate, was a technical writer - and believe me, that was very creative. What I did was not strictly writing - I collected information in Hebrew from the programmer, turned it into readable, clear logical English, without really understanding one word of what i was doing. Ah, you say, noe you understand w hy comput er manuals are incompr ehensible! Clare Wilson wrote: > > In a message dated 7/4/99 2:02:07 PM Mountain Daylight Time, > [log in to unmask] writes: > > << > It has been reported by the usual "Reliable Sources" that some very > "different" pigs have been seen in the area of Parkinsaw. Ms.Piggy > believes them to be a cohort of "Vietnamese Pot-Bellied Pigs" >> > > To Camilla, Carole, Ken, Hilary, and others, I do enjoy your creative > writing skills...the prose just seems to flow from your fingertips > and the saga goes on. You are all extremely talented. I'm > wondering if any of you earns a salary for such talent. > Clare Wilson