Editor's answers in italics.

Duke,
I forwarded my newsletter as usual, but I considered this one our weakest one. What that amounts to is that the it didn't interest me.
Marjorie LeClair

Hi Marjorie!
Thanks so much for taking the time to send me your thoughts and for the article this month. I wish more members would respond like this so that I can know which direction to take the newsletter.


Duke,
I must again congratulate you. The newsletter is really good. It's interesting, it's funny,and it has a point of view not available anywhere else. I could identify with several of the articles.

No, not those; the one about the nearsightedness. I am also fairly nearsighted. For years I needed my glasses to have any functional vision at all. But with presbyopia I can now see close up better than I've ever seen anything. I love it. Once again, wonderful newsletter.

As you know if you read Gerry's Grumblings, I get newsletters from other groups. Today I also got a couple of sheets stapled together from a group that will remain nameless. I know it's tasteless for me to gloat, but we have the best newsletter of any I've seen.
Gerry Schultz

Thanks Gerry!

Duke,
Wicked issue once again! I have several comments I would like to make about it.

First of all, the cover was choice. The pink background with all the combinations of the sexual symbols was really cool. I giggled a little at the one on the lower left of the cover. I am assuming that one was for those of us with ambiguous genitalia.

I also appreciated your placement of the Letters to the Editor from Brian Coats & Bruce Crabtree. It provided a stark contrast I found to be both thought provoking and interesting.

The article contributed by the mystery man who finds overweight women attractive was really good as well. It is interesting to know that he feels it is just a natural inclination. I have had several running buddies in high school and college that had vastly different ideas of what was "attractive" than me. I am assuming that all those with somewhat different sexual appetites or fetishes of some type feel that it is simply a natural predisposition.

Your article on pheromones was very enlightening and my favorite was your piece on the science of sexual preference. It just seemed to bring the whole theme of the issue together.
Thanks Again,
Van Hill

Van, your support for this newsletter is greatly appreciated. Thank you!


On M-Ark winning national awards
Fantastic! Of course, we all knew we had a fantastic newsletter, but noweverybody else knows, too. I've seen the newsletters put out by other groups, and ours is by far the best.
Great job, Duke.
DeLynn Hearn

Thanks for the kind words DeLynn!


Way to go, Duke.
Exemplary, phenomenal, prodigious!
Dave Bradshaw

Thanks Dave! As always it is good to hear from you.


Duke,
Congratulations on the awards. The credit is well deserved and all yours. Take a moment to pat yourself on the back. I've just been a member long enough to receive one newsletter but the one I read and those I've swiped at meetings are excellent. They are a wonderful reflection on our organization and our editor.

This is what I want you to do. Go to your tallest building or highest bridge where you can see the farthest. Face into the wind and just let your cape billow behind you. Thank you for all you do for us.
Randy Walker

Thanks Randy!

Duke,
Mazel-Tov! You've done us proud again. Thank you! Randy Walker said it best-Stand on a high place and let your cape billow behind you! You are our hero.
Joe Barda

Now if I can just learn where to put a comma. Thanks Joe.

Duke,
I just checked the National site and there we were #1 in the nation. Way to go Duke! Orange County must be crawling with real writers and all the other stuff that goes into producing a publication and they could only pull even with us. I had to just sit there and stare at it for awhile.
Richard Emmel

Thanks, my friend.


Dear Editor,
People should be writing in complaining about your extremely high number of grammatical errors. If you could improve yourself in that area, we would win Best Newsletter every year. I find it embarrassing for th editor of our state's newsletter to constantly congratulate himself by publishing any and every nice comment you receive. I find it juvenile.
Duke Heath

Well, Duke, you best get used to it. When we are nominated or when we win national awards, I will do it every time. And we have more awards in our future. But, then, you, of all people, should know how I feel about this issue. Publishing both praise and criticisms helps those who read M-Ark get a feel for what other readers think about our publication. But, I also like reading them over and over, and so do you. By the way, if any one is keeping count, that's three national awards and eight nominations for our little magazine.