Ellen wrote: " In my last message, I think I stated my income rather confusingly (so someone might have thought: wow! She made that much! In that case, I'm going to start a nursery now!) What I meant was that after I quit academics and devoted myself full-time to the nursery, I made under 10K in my first year, and the net crept upward over the next 12 years to around 72K last year." Contrast that to the yearly income of professors at some schools - said to be in the six figure range! Jim McKenney