Robert Mackey's Lives column (May 21) was the most absurd thing you've published in many years.

Joan Murray's Lives column (May 13) about the elderly hitchhiker hit home - literally.

Bernard Cooper's Lives column (Jan. 8) prompted a pleasant memory of my mother under similar circumstances.

I found your Lives column (Oct 29) on deer hunting offensive.

I read her Lives column (April 11) before going to my piano lesson.

Now, in her Lives column (Jan. 16), she proves that she can make the simplest thing seem so very interesting.

Cynthia Carr's Lives column (Feb. 26) has some resonance to my own family.

Gabe Hudson's Lives column (Nov. 19) brought back some mixed memories.

Your Lives column made me think of other ways in which computers, by simplifying life, have created a sense of loss.

Robert Mackey's Lives column on sexual decoys restored my commitment to weekends in the mountains forgetting.