Dear writer JIM, please pretend I'm sending you the required "... fifty cents and a fifth of Old Tonguewagger..." and give me more on your opinion. Could Sallie Marcum have been a relative of my most beloved friend and mentor, the late Mary Marshall Marcum Paul Todd of Columbia? Marshall Todd, retired teacher, adopted me right after I landed in Columbia from far away Metcalfe County when I put my name on an article in the Adair County News because she and I shared the name "Marcum," We never established if we were kin, didn\t need to because we knew we were sisters in the shared love of the written word. Marshall would say, "you have to write more!" and I would write more every chance I got with her encouragement and later some good English training by Dr. Loretta Martin Murray at the Glasgow WKU campus. Now I catch myself thanking contributors to Ed's "little paper" as everyone calls Columbiamagazine.com, and I'm encouraging others to "write more!" I'm so glad you wrote this and please keep it up . . . WM&M! Linda Marcum Waggener