My user name is palindromic too, also my name, also my daughter's name which is "aha". We will one day have a band called Aha and the Palindromes. I will be one of the pals. There's something self-assured about going both ways; and comforting about being the same, no matter what direction you go in, something sure, something steady, like your cat. A palindrome is confidence-building, like rhyming poetry. Speaking of poems, a friend was going to build a poem with me, but he bailed out. Here's the beginning. Sorry jleopold I know this isn't the place for poetry, except that everywhere is the place for poetry: She read the loneliest poem It began like this: “Last night for the first time you told me you loved me less.” I saw her mouth as she read, wandering through desert sands thirsty, lost, alone. _refugee_ how did you get your name?