It's been two months since Rick and I have gotten together on air. Last month, I was at a conference in Las Vegas called CTIA Wireless which focused on all the new wireless products available. One of the coolest things coming down the road is FemtoCells.FemtoCells are small devices you buy from your Cell Phone company and hook up to your home or business Internet connection. It becomes a small "cell tower" for your cell phone. Your calls go through your Internet connection and when you go outside, the calls are handed-off to the closest cell tower seamlessly. Verizon announced their product last month to be released later this year for $50. Rumors have AT&T on track to sell their

I was not one of the 1008 Americans to receive a call from CNN Opinion Research Corporation Poll, asking whether I’m in a sour mood over the state of the country, so I did not get to weigh in on the subject. I wish I had been called, because I would have greatly differed with the whopping 70% of my grumpy countrymen. And, should the unsuspecting pollster have stayed on the line long enough, I would have had this to say: Who lets their mood be determined by such a thing? If I based my mood on something as ambiguous as the state of the country, I might never rise from my covers in the morning. What kind of emotional

Two best-friends got together last month and created their first online cartoon. It's a "Happy Mother's Day" eCard for you to send on to your own mother. After all, where would we be without the wonderful love, support and constant maintenance our mothers do for us! Click on it, enjoy and then support their hard work by forwarding it on to all your friends...and especially your Mother!

Next week, from Tuesday through Saturday---which is Mother's Day eve!---The Scent Shop will be holding a special Mother's Day "Color Her World with Fragrance" promotion: Purchase 1 bottle of fragrance, and get a second of your choice for half price!   ******   What is it about scent that stirs the heart, the imagination, the deepest memory of man and woman? Well, since Mother's Day is right around the corner, let's save that one for the mind-body experts at Johns Hopkins, while we get right down to all you need to know about Geriann Fowler's friendly neighborhood fragrance haven, The Scent Shop!

...one man had even lifted his shirt so that all could get a close-up of his most recent surgical scar. Everyone seemed duly impressed at the shiny gross-out spectacle near this stranger's exposed navel... Moom and I had a screamingly funny time on the trail, sailing along the untried road in utter darkness during an unexpected thunderstorm. "You do have your cell phone, don't you?" she asked, in seriousness. "Yes," I answered. "But do we even know where we are, I mean, exactly? Will the phone even get a signal out here? And how would we tell anyone where we are, when we can't see anything but some sort of crops all over the place?" We both burst out laughing,

...Four boys she'd had, and she never gave a thought to what happened when they got behind the wheel; ah, but the girl...what can I say?    This is a story about how mothers stay mothers forever, no matter how old their children get, how far those children have traveled, or how capable those children might have proven to be in taking care of themselves over the years. It's a brief story of my dear sainted mother, Lillian E. Thompson (1926-2002), who managed the Poplar Bluff city bus company for years until her retirement in 1996. It's a tale that illustrates how that "lioness instinct" never dies---at least if you have a child you consider something of an egghead with little in