Your voice casts magic, it's made for storytelling. I only wish the podcast was shorter-length,like 10-15 minutes, to maintain it's edge. Good luck!

You know, I never thought about it until now, but you made me think about being a kid and how much freedom we had compared to kids today (which is funny, because my mother was the Ultimate Worry Wart and Control Freak).

But we went off to the playground and climbed trees and roamed the ravine that ran behind the schoolyard and went off to the skating rink and the swimming pool, sometimes with a friend or two, sometimes alone.

I can't imagine there are more crazies now than forty years ago. But we were more -- what's the word I'm looking for -- I think there was more of a sense of propriety forty years ago, and if you were a crazy, you pretty much were noticed and avoided.

Does that make any sense? But when we all walk around outdoors in our pajamas (well, not me, but I see it all the time), or whatever, then it's easier for the crazies to be crazy and not get noticed. And then we become fearful, because we no longer have any idea of who the crazies are, so we assume that *everyone* is crazy.

Or maybe I'm just getting old.

:-)