Chris,

I'm glad you made that abundantly clear. Today I'm doing something I really love to do and that's helping someone else with a few things I know about science and scientists.

A really terrific author, Cal Orey, is doing Jim Berklands biography. Included in this work there are a lot of elements outside of him including issues about prediction. While I'm a dim light in your cicle of knowledge, I do know who's who where and about what. So I'm giving her some names of people to contact and their contact information in addition to writing 10 disaster movie reviews and a bit about prediction theories. It's a gift a lot of people gave me and now I can share it with her and she will share it with many more. That's the best part about education; sharing.

Now I'll make you laugh. When I was a child I had dyslexia. I would try to read and I could read the same paragraph 6 or 7 times and in an instant not remember a thing I read. Math was really difficult too. And on every report card the teacher would tell my parents I had a hearing problem and to take me to a doctor. They did and I had excellent hearing. They were all perplexed and didn't know what to do with me. What they didn't know was that I was bored to death. I daydreamed in class all the time and every now and then while I was off in my dreams I would feel a poke from a kid behind me and I would awaken to hear the teacher screaming at the top of her lungs at me. Gosh, what shock.

Dyslexia fades with age and soon I discovered, not unlike my mother I have a nearly photographic memory. If I've ever seen a person once I'll remember them for life. If given a name, it never fades even if I haven't seen them in 20 years. And I remember everything I read as well.

For you, all of this came easy. For me, I relish in it because I had to work very hard to get it. And I still have great hearing too. LOL

The words "you've come a long way baby" means a lot to me.

Petra