This book started out as a personal journal. It will make you laugh, it will make you cry, and it will horrify you all at the same time. It is dedicated to my loving husband, my one and only, the "lid" to my "pot." The book was started twenty years ago but finished recently as a result of his constant pushing to publish it. If it weren't for him, it would never have been finished. I am eternally grateful to him. He has always maintained that the true stories and morals at the end are valuable lessons that could help others avoid some of the mistakes that I have made.