I am practical by nature, and I'd heard that being a writer or an artist is a good way to starve! So I was an economics major at Oklahoma State, and then received an M.S. from Cornell in Agricultural Resource and Managerial Economics. I knew if I wanted to write I would do it on my own, but I knew I wouldn't make myself study economics on my own.

I mean she's Cleopatra... shouldn't she and Antony have known better? They were so different..." "Variety is the spice of life" "And from a thousand miles apart" "Absence makes the heart grow fonder

the only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And in a concrete bunker. In Siberia.

Tell me or I'll yell for Mr. and Mrs. Baxter, and you can find out how bex became bex

Unusual financial activity: none, unless you count the fact that someone in the family is way too into Civil War biographies. (Can this be a possible indication of Confederate insurgents still living and working in Virginia? Must research further.)

Aren't you going to introduce your little girlfriend to your mother?

Hes gone. Hes just gone.