I have some memories like Peace mentioned, though not 11 days straight.

I'm sorry to hear that, and I'm glad you made it through that difficult time.

I cringe when I think of all the food and other things the USA wastes when their are people going hungry and going without.

Though I certainly don't think of myself as well to do, I suppose to lots of others in this world, I am rich-in material goods I mean.

Though this is off the subject, about 25 years ago, an international student from Zimbabwe spent the weekend with me and my children. We didn't have a washer or dryer and I had bags of clothes to take to the laundromat and I didn't even have a car to get the bags of clothes there or bring them back home.

But I will never forget this woman's comment that I must be rich since my children and I had all of those clothes. She had 5 dresses, but she said that was due to tremendous sacrifice since she was going to school in this country. Usually people in her country had {have?} two outfits to wear. When one is dirty, they wash it and wear the other one.

That was truly a humbling experience.