If you're a woman, Elbow Inn etiquette dictates that you remove your bra, autograph it and staple it to the ceiling above the bar on your first visit, so plan accordingly.

The Mojave Desert just blows me away. It is just miles upon miles of this weirdly beautiful desolation.

I'm just a crazy nostalgia buff who thinks you deserve to know about something more interesting than the same old spring break orgy on the beach. Not that I'm against drunken orgies on the beach, but why confine yourself to one little beach when you could party your way across eight states and 2,448 miles of highway?

The Labor Department was on them because they never hired a woman painter.

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a ''home'' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

She must not swing her arms as though they were dangling ropes; she must not switch herself this way and that; she must not shout; and she must not, while wearing her bridal veil, smoke a cigarette