I am ravenous this morning, crazies, after reading Jackie&#39;s pizza menu....good grief, what a WONDERFUL selection of menu choices...brie is so civilized.  I could easily eat nothing but pizza.<br /><br />My youngest, Jeremy, is off this morning for Argentina again.  He&#39;s been home a month.  There is a terminally ill cancer patient waiting in Salta for this trial drug.  Sad to hear of Paul Newman&#39;s death - he was always one of my favorites.  I love his statesment regarding Joanne Woodward, as to why he never was interested in other women.  &quot;When you have steak at home, why would you want hamburger?&quot;<br /><br />Kevin, I do better with deadlines and you&#39;re right...next time I get a really good paycheck ( of course, that will have to be after these back to back cruise end and I&#39;m working again ), I will get that poetry chapbook done...but it may be after the New Year.  If I can get the first one paid for, I have enough poems for a second one.<br /><br /><a href="http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2266483290101341621KtzHYj" target="_blank"><img src="http://inlinethumb17.webshots.com/7696/2266483290101341621S425x425Q85.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" /></a><br /><br />This is a poem written to a suggested topic on helium:<br /><br />Creative Writing on www. helium.com  &gt;Poetry: Hate <br /><br />There are 137 articles on this title. <br /><br />You are reading the article ranked and rated #43 by Helium&#39;s members.<br /><br />HATE<br /><br />by Carmen Henesy<br /><br />Precious innocent children, <br />Grow up so filled with hate, <br />Exposed, from birth, to violence, <br />They know no other fate.<br /><br />They learn to hurt each other, <br />To shoot a gun and fight, <br />There is no one to teach them, <br />What&#39;s wrong or what is right.<br /><br />Hate for other cultures, <br />Disregard for other creeds, <br />They band with kindred spirits, <br />And commit atrocious deeds.<br /><br />They shatter lives around them, <br />And as their numbers swell, <br />Suicide bomber killings, <br />Doom their souls to hell.<br /><br />Rather a dark poem but it&#39;s been interesting to write a few.  I guess they can&#39;t all be <br />lighthearted but that&#39;s why I like the helium site.  It&#39;s gotten me to write about topics I normally<br />never would have tried.<br /><br />So, I&#39;m out and about today.  Will check in later.  Call doesn&#39;t start till 5P.<br /><br /><br />