[Living near the Gulf Coast in Ocean Springs, Miss. Dorothy and her family was used to storms.] It happens quite often, ... usually within two days everything is back to normal.

A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.

It's very surreal. When we were little we would watch the pageant as a family, and my sister and I would go into the utility room and play Miss America in our heels.

Whose noble praise Deserves a quill pluckt from an angel's wing.

Our charge is to review any recommendation they have, but then we are also to review funding sources. We have to maintain balance, and we don't want to be in the same situation pension funds in other big cities have found themselves.

[They arrived to open arms on Friday, Sept. 1.] Everybody is so good to us here, ... It's marvelous.