pieta,

I used to listen to Joy Browne years ago but she kind of vanished. I didn't know she was still on the radio. I always liked her because she was no nonsense and didn't let people wallow in self-pity, butmade them get serious with themselves, very much like Dr. Phil does, and which all therapist should do. Touchy-feely, I'm-OK-your-OK doesn't work.

I loved her response to a young woman, who was just getting into dating and about to become sexually active. The woman wanted to know how long she should wait before sleeping with a new beau. Joy said "Everyone has to develop their own standard on this. Mine is simple; I won't sleep with a man before I know his middle name. Although I must say there have been times that within 10 minutes of meeting a man I was ready to ask 'so, what's your middle name?'"