When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.

I wanted Cathy and Irving to actually say 'I do' and be pronounced husband and wife on Feb. 5, which is my mom's birthday.

My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call.

Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.

I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.

Because the majority of my readers are women, I feel that one public service I can provide to them is to spread the message of regular mammograms and early detection within the strip.