As for pets, I can't imagine life without at least one. I've always lived with them - from the time I was born. There may have been a year or so after my son was born that I didn't have one, but that's all. I miss my pets as much as any family member or close friend.

Your reply to Elfie's comment brought back a memory from my travels with my mother last fall. One evening she asked me if I had brought any eye make up. I said yes and got out my mascara and eyeliner. She said, "No! Not that! I want blue eye shadow!" I was sorely tempted to tell her that blue eye shadow was, like, so five minutes ago. Instead, I just said I didn't have any.

I have always looked more interesting with make-up, at least after the age of 17. I looked at all those natural flower children of the 60s and thought one day they might wish they'd learned how to pretty up because what they had wasn't going to last forever. If you use Clairol, you are not totally lost. I like it all -- all the imagery, all the artifice, all the on-stage persona of the actress. Natural/smatcharal - dot ain't me. Hand me the eyeliner, honey, I'm going out. The kitties, however, love me even at dawn when I am about as natural as I gits. And I am still tearing up when I think of Scratch and Sniff, my late kitties from the 90s. xx, T.

Jewelry I can see, but I gotta' have my makeup!

We are all for pets, jewelry and makeup in my family and so is most everyone I know. I guess it is because we are so close to Dallas.

What's a catwhatever dog? I hate it when pets die. What a softie I am. As for the wedding ring, someday a diver in the Pacific will find my last one and wonder how it ever got there.

Everybody is different that's what makes this big ole world special I had to smile because my mom doesn't wear jewelry or makeup either. Never has...she kept her wedding ring in a little box.