Dexter, I don't have any answers for you but I know exactly what you're talking about. Throughout the years, I've become very cynical about "giving" to friends... and family, too, for that matter. It seems the more you give the more they expect. Look out if one time you don't have anything to give!! Maybe the secret lies in our own expectations. I know that I have expected help from my family and found none. It came from places I never thought I'd be getting it. I have one friend that is more family to me that most of my own blood. She's bailed me out of difficult situations more times than I can count, while my family stood back and watched. I don't know...

Of course, now that I'm getting my retro check from Disability, I'm beginning to see outstretched hands... Like my daughter in law wanting me to buy a pony for my 4 yr old granddaughter!

Like I said, I just don't know...



"For unto us a Son is given..."