Unlike Rhon, I do not remember everything. In fact, I seem to have a (not so hidden) talent for FORGETTING things. Truly, I have a brain like a sieve. I don't know if my mom took weird drugs when I was in the womb, or if her two pack a day cigarette habit deprived me of oxygen in my budding fetal state.

Perhaps my memory issues are my own fault.   Suffice it to say that I have them. So if you think that you somehow offended me at a conference, no worries--because even if you did (and I'm pretty hard to offend) then chances are that I don't recall it.

Apart from my talent for forgetting things, I have a strange hidden talent: prehensile toes. Possibly God intended for me to be born a primate but then changed His mind suddenly. Anyway, I can pick things up with my toes and I can pinch people with my toes.

Unfortunately I have never fully developed my toe skills and so I cannot play the piano or the guitar a la pied, as they might say in France. (?) Hey, I'd so much rather be in France (or pretty much anywhere else) than be working on the revisions for my current manuscript!

Usually I have the hidden talent of being able to back away from my work and deconstruct it objectively. That talent is not only passively hidden right now, but actively hiding. And it won't come out no matter how much I try to beg/bribe/badger it.

Really, I'm trying to see the forest but the trees are in the way and all the branches on them are poking out my eyeballs and all the creatures hidden in the branches are laughing at me. Which brings us back almost full circle to the hidden talent of prehensile toes: they aid greatly in climbing trees. I need to get a view of this forest/manuscript from the highest possible vantage point so that I can . . . er . . . look down upon it.

Wait. I'm already doing that and thinking it's a mess, so forget it.

See, I told you I forget things! And that, readers (if you're still there, scratching your head and trying to follow my demented logic) is truly coming full circle on this topic. Please keep in mind that I have never claimed to be a linear thinker and have a great Thursday and 4th of July! Karen

p.s. I am completely sober. Really.