Success!

I'm not sure why this wouldn't work for me yesterday but today I managed to cut and paste my story. I put it in Word first.

'A Rose By Any Other Name' gratified me in several areas. It let me write down what I was thinking about life in Oz and it was my first published piece. A local paper but a published item. I was very proud.

The language battles still exist althought they are fewer and far between. We often watch 'UK TV" and I love the British sense of humor. They also do a hell of a mystery. I still find myself asking Tony what they just said but not as often. I get in to trouble with a hard Scottish accent but as my appreciation of other accents grows, so does my ear.

Perhaps the biggest problem still existing is when I identify myself on the phone. People think I am saying everything but Linda. They think I am Wendy, Belinda, Lindy, or Linny. Hello! This never happens in person. And when it is an automated message and I have to speak to move on I always get transfered to an operator. I don't mind because I usually want an operator anyway. But I have to correct them because they keep calling me by whatever name they think I said.

Life in Australia is special. They are wonderful people generally although there have been one or two I wanted to deck. But then, there are loads of Americans I want to deck so I guess it evens out in the end.

I have a few more stories that I want to add and I will over the next few days. I hope that you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them. And maybe I will be inspired to write some more. I have been wanting to do that for a very long time.

TTFN