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Someone please tell Sheila in Hartford, CT (posted the other day) that the questions she was asked in the job interview (about family, children, etc.) are ILLEGAL. It is against federal law in the USA to ask such questions. The job search can be invalidated, and there are penalties that the employer can be charged. Please contact the State agency in CT that oversees fair employment practices. People should not be allowed to continue this practice.

Gina L, VT, USA

We cannot seem to win. The feminist revolution has made things vastly better for women in most respects. However, we have lost too and I do not know what the answer is. If we work we leave our kids for someone else to raise. If we all raise our own kids, we lose the power we have to get equal jobs in the workplace. Folks say they need work to be fulfilled. However, when I am at work I hear everyone bemoaning the fact that they are AT work. I also see the work of a mom belittled because she is not bring home money - as if that is the true measure of our worth to ourselves and society. Ideally I would like to see both parents be able to work part time - this way no one will ever be too burnt out. I think then we will have true equality.

Catherine G, Albany, NY, USA

I'm both happy and sad to see Paul on the front page of the website. He was an awkward character at first, but I really grew to like him and was so disappointed when Liz took off on him. In retrospect, though, I think Paul dodged a real bullet there.

Les G, AL, USA

I had been reading the original comic strip for years and even started a scrapbook of the ones that were revelent to me and my family. I kept it up all the way to the very end and even journaled that i would be looking forward to restarting another scrapbook with the new-runs. however, i have since come to the conclusion that it will never happen. i can't get into the story like before. nothing is familiar and i was raised in the 50's , born a boomer baby. My mom worked, my dad worked, all 5 of us kids had chores to do and if mom wasn't home from work yet, dad and i started dinner. sure us kids all fought, but we worked together too and no one parent stifled the other, even back in 1960 when i took care of my baby brother so mom could get the ironing done. i guess my memory scrapbook will have to be just that. it would have been great to see liz and anthony in parent roles and april with her job and new boyfriend and yes, even the funeral of grampa jim. I think Lynn went too far back in doing her new-runs and its lost me.

Denise N, Bradenton, FL, USA