Maybe you saw the cover of this book on a shelf in a bookstore, and opened it, thinking it was the story of a former lady gangster with secrets to reveal -- or possibly the ruminations of a partially recovered escapee from a nut house. Well, tough luck, it's not. That book you are holding in your hand is just something I decided to write to get some old garbage off my mind. I'm not going to glorify it any more than that. I just happen to be an outspoken schnook raised by a pair of other outspoken schnooks, residents of an average neighborhood of nobodies, most of whose lives were pretty...

What do remarrying folks worry about? What's this new spouse really like? Will I fail? Will health be a big issue? How about money? Common interests? The past? The issues are as varied and as individual as fingerprints Adjustment to a new lifestyle is a given, no matter how one's previous marriage ended. In my book, I Promise To Stay Married (This Time), I describe my own adjustment as I leaped over the crevice from my own comfort zone of single life after two failures, to a completely different situation. I moved away from my big city law practice, my grown children, my home and my friends...