OK, so I'm a little late to this party, but one of my students told me about the Web site AnySoldier.com so tonight I spent an hour reading about the logistics and needs for sending a package to a soldier who doesn't get much mail. It's a very cool Web site and a great way to brighten a soldier's day. I cleared at least a foot of bookshelf space; I'm sending a duplicate copy of Snow Crash (LOVE that book) and Moby Dick (ditto), Bill Cosby's Childhood, plus Memoirs of a Geisha, Bee Season, a couple James Herriott novels, a book of after-dinner games, and a book of picture postcards of California.

Best of all, you only have to pay the postage to New York or San Francisco. Motormouth sez, “Check it out.”