Mrs. DeVore said that both she and her employee (who declined to be interviewed and asked not to be named) had marveled at the speed with which the financial crisis had hit home. “We talk about the trickledown effect of Wall Street, how my selling less houses is going to affect her mother living in her hut in Dominica, which is crazy,” she said. “But her mother is going to get less sugar because she has less money to send home.”

Personally I think a man/woman’s success is defined by the peaks and troughs in one’s lives. If you’ve known great success and fail and then get back up again – that’s cahunas (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cahunas). If you “fall and can’t get up” – reach for the medi-alert bracelet. What scares me is people without hope – they are the ones who do the really stupid stuff.