Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide.

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book

I cannot find words to express the depth of my loss or outrage about what's happening to this country. I don't know if I can find the words for it, but if this country ever recovers, it will not be in my lifetime. If I were elected President, the first thing I would do would be to set up a Department of Restoring the Bill of Rights. I would have 10,000 people working there.

White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

I live and die with the Chicago Cubs

The decimation of Lebanon was showing up in Chicago as a series of restaurants and little shops, just as the destruction of Vietnam had been visible here a decade earlier. If you never read the news but ate out a lot you should be able to tell who was getting beaten up around the world.