That made me think of a fundamental truth: unemployment benefits are only for people once employed as employees.

FORBES: 'Tis The Season For Unemployment (Benefits)

Now, before I get off the topic of the education, let me do a little more truth-telling.

WHITEHOUSE: Town Hall in Los Angeles

I'm looking for something in the middle that will give me a sense of who's telling the truth here.

NPR: Before Congress, Clemens Insists He Is Innocent

And I appointed a Special Review Board, the Tower Board, which took on the chore of pulling the truth together for me and getting to the bottom of things.

CNN: Iran-Contra Affair

This inviolate "death and taxes" truth sustained me--a peace-loving granny, a tree-hugging liberal--through 64 years of protected, upper-middle-class subsistence.

NEWSWEEK: Culture

So, this month as my first book, Nothing But the Truth So Help Me God: 51 Women Reveal the Power of Positive Female Connection, the first in a series of anthologies, launches on Amazon and Barnes and Noble in both print and ebook versions, I hope to learn from the mistakes I watched Borders make.

FORBES: An Industry in Turmoil: From Borders Bookstores to Self-Publishing