Hi everyone: I am so behind in my e-mail correspondence. I want to thank everyone who answered my questions about the ROM stud dog and brood bitch questions. We certainly get an education on this List. I'm so behind because I'm on three GSD Lists, another personal List, and now I just got an invitation to join a writing group List the other day. I don't know how they got my name (any of you guys the guilty party?), but they asked if I would like to join them. I looked around their web-site a bit before making the committment, and I thought we had a big group here. They have over 6,000 members! So I joined. Many of these members are already published writers, journalists, editors, etc. Wow, am I intimidated! LOL! Got lot's to learn though. So I submitted my little humble story "A boy and his dog" and asked them to critique it for me. I got some constuctive advice from the List moderator who I'm waiting to hear back from now to some answers to my questions. When they correspond back to me, I'm not always certain what they mean because they talk in a different language from us dog people. I know what our abbreviations stand for on this List (GSDCA or PC), but theirs is all foreign to me. Then I met this great guy who really enjoyed my story because he said he's a dog lover too. Then he got back to me again and invited me to send him some more of my dog stories and directed me over to his web-site which is mostly dog related and he's got books selling on Amazon. He told me, he might be able to help me get some of my works published. So I sent him an idea I want to do centered around my "Wilma and Fred" spoof. So now I got to get back to the e-mails and see what I've been missing on this List and what the topic of discussion has been about for the last couple of days. I'm sure I'll be joining in the discussions again soon. You know me, never at a loss for words. No pun intended! I was up until 5 a.m. last night writing another story. I'm told as a writer you need to continue to write every day. I found myself so over tired today that I took a little nap (which I never do....can't sleep in the day) at about 3:45 pm and I passed out. I woke up about 6:45 this evening and I thought it was the a.m. instead of the p.m., and I said "oh my gosh, Amber never got her dinner or was let out". Turned the television on, and Seinfeld was on, so knew I was still in the evening and not the morning yet. So it's just me trying to catch up with all of you. Best wishes, Barbara Galasso ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2005. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://www.showgsd.org ============================================================================