Dear Dr. Laura,

I am new to your radio show and have been listening on my way to work for the past 3-4 months. I have heard a lot about being a "man".

My home office is the kitchen. I cook, do my computer business, hang out with my 5 rescue dogs and watch TV in here. I quite often have the TV on as background noise and typically pick things that I've seen before or that I don't really have to pay too much attention to while I go about business. About once a year I pop in one of very favorite series "Little House on the Prairie". My daughter named our three female dogs Laura, Carrie and Grace after three of the girls in this show. My two male dogs are Baryshnikov with the obvious name sake and Eddie after Eddie Van Halen.  Anyway, I just started up my annual watching of this show and I thought of you. I was thinking that Charles Ingalls is a REAL Man who does what it takes to take care of his family in good times and very bad times. He stands up for his family, friends and justice. He makes mistakes, but he is what I envision as your definition of a "man".

I just wanted to share that with you. I'll bet your pups are beautiful! They are one the most important parts of my and my family's lives. Laura, my oldest, is a Blue Heeler/Chow mix and is the leader of her pack....and the whole house for that matter.

Take care!

Julie