If you could redo your regrets and bad decisions, would you? Even if that 'do over' affected the life you have now, in good and negative ways?

I wouldn’t do anything differently that would change where I am now (even though I sometimes wonder what the hell I’m doing). I would change a couple of stupid things that I’m fairly certain wouldn’t change my today. That period between husbands was kind of creepy..


If you could teach your children only one lesson, guaranteed they would retain it, what would it be? Why?

Compassion. Is that a lesson? I say so. Sure, the world is "every man for himself" but I think it's good to keep in mind that if someone is down on their luck to not judge them. You haven't been in their shoes.


Do you believe that nature or nurture plays a role in how people turn out?

Both. I think nurture plays a bigger part but that sometimes nature can't be stopped.


What do you want to be remembered for after you are gone?

That I'm basically good-hearted...even though I have a mouth like a sailor and a sometimes totally inappropriate sense of humor.


If there is a technological apocalypse, like in S.M. Stirling's The Change, would you survive? How?

Heh, oddly enough, I dreamed last night that the world was going to hell in a handbasket and I was at my Mom's house. We all hid in the attic until the killing machines went away. Little Dog didn't make it - she yapped too much so I left her in the kitchen.

Ahem.

I hadn't heard of this book so did some quick peeking on Google...(AND I'm going to see if the library has this series today! Sounds like a good read.)

If I had a bit of warning of the upcoming technological apocalypse - I'd get my butt to my Mom's house in the Middle Of Nowhere. She's a handy person and between her and Husband, I'd be able to sponge off of them long enough to learn some survival skills.

If I had no warning and woke up today to this kind of shit? I'd grab a crossbow, a fishing pole and a spear - get a backpack full of vienna sausages, oranges and assorted seeds to plant and strike off away from here. I'd want to be as far away from everyone else as possible.

UNLESS I could quickly round up a few people that I totally trust - then I'd give a tiny community in the middle of nowhere a go. WINNIE? You wanna meet me in the event of a technological disaster or zombie takeover?