Shari put in two comments:
“Yes, Please don’t give up. As you said, a match will be lit. No matter how smart someone is they can’t know everything so you just never know when. ”
Comment by Shari — 4/23/2006 @ 6:25 pm | Edit This
“ps. I do know that there is a difference between a seminar and a lecture, so I should probably shutup entirely.”
Comment by Shari
MY REPLY:
Shari, I will make a deal with you.
I won’t give up if you will STOP PUTTING YOURSELF DOWN.
In an earlier comment you said something else about how your opinions were somehow ill-informed a little while back.
The guys here have already caught hell for doing that, and every one of them knows that if they did what you are doing I would come down on them like an avalanche.
You don’t see Elizabeth saying her opinions are somehow not worth while.
I approve every single comment that appears here.
That means that I approve everything you say here.
If you said anything really stupid or ingorant I would mention it, though I admit I would be nicer to a female than to a male.
Leave it to ME to correct you.
Bob is not the nicest guy in the world.
Bob also has a lot of confidence in his own judgement. You forget that when you apologize for what you say you are apologising for something I have approved and something I can comment on if I want to.
An apology on your part, though you sincerely do not realize it, is a hint that I don’t know how to do what I’m doing.
Shari, I KNOW what I am doing.
I made a very good living doing what I am doing.
I approve your comments and reply to them because I, Robert Walker Whitaker, consider them WORTH reading and WORTH responding to.
You just think about what you want to say and SAY it.
The rest is MY business.
#1 by Shari on 04/26/2006 - 7:23 pm
Thank you. I know this is your blog and you are the boss of it. What I should have added and didn’t was the fact that I actually do use this more as a lecture, a place to learn, and I do think that I am learning. As I have said before, I am not brilliant, but I have always been a thinker and a reader. My problem is that I don’t have friends I feel free around. My darling husband, and he is too, told me some time ago that he couldn’t be my only friend. Of course he can’t, he has been making the living around here. But Mark is mistaken if he thinks that I don’t talk to him a lot too. He catches most of it, though after all these years I think I have learned to have some sense and not drive him crazy. I know we women are like that.