let me ask you a question, eileen.0-second pitches on thursdays. we bring in folks that are looking for work. they've got 30 seconds to give their spiel. >> would you be open to doing that right now? because i know you're looking for work. i know you're struggling. i know you're completely stressed out about your dwindling savings and what happened to you because of the wall street nightmare. how about i give you 30 seconds and we'll give a pitch. what do you think? are you up for that? >> absolutely. >> let's do it. and i'll let you know when your 30 seconds are up if you're still going we'll wing it here and get your e-mail up and eileen crystal. let's go for it. start when you're ready. >> hi. i'm a retired lawyer. i also have an mba and a masters degree in psychology. i have extensive experience in research and writing, in regulatory interpretation and electronic discovery. i've also worked as a consultant to a fortune 500 company marketing division and i've been a psychotherapist. so i've done a lot of different t

this is a question from eileen and she writes, my partner and i began a home-based business instructinghildren and adults to cook. we developed a website almost immediately. for the entire four to six months we had a number of parents sign up their children. it was so exciting. then it began to slow down. i'm not sure where to go from here. so it sounds like she needs to redo her website because she's getting people there but not keeping them. >> and i think it shouldn't really be just about your website. if people are coming, taking a class, interacting with you, they should be telling their friends about about it and you should be doing a lot more in person marketing and telling them to spread the word about your product rather than just relying on a website to drive traffic. >> i would ask eileen a question, how did you get them there in the first place, whether it was seo, a whole new ball game on the web. word of mouth can go a long way, but things like search and finding -- and really it doesn't just extend through a website like this. you want to figure out in any business, how d

we have a call of eileen in texas. what do you think? >> caller: well, my brother has seven kids adopted from russia and my sister two, and i'm just shocked, because any child that is adopted and put into the orphanages are going to have a little bit of a problem. >> thank you, eye liileeeileen, call, because vicki zeiler, i have a comment, too, because i have this, i have two babies born to drugs, and i would never drop them off on a plane to russia. what do you think? >> from an emotional standpoint, this is devastating. there is a commitment when you adopt a child and from russia, it is a 9-month to 12-month process, so if a child is showing psychological problems or a medical condition, instead of sending them back to the country, america has great facilities to help children, it is outrageous, but is it criminal? that is what we need to focus in on as attorneys. >> is this criminal? could they see charges or jail time for this? >> the problem is that the child has been returned to russia, so the action is brought where the child is.

host: this from eileen. here is an editorial from "the washington post" outlining the three approaches to regulating will strip. the first of be a firm and simple no-bail policy. any farmer grows of size would be allowed to enter bankruptcy, or its creditors would have to take their chances with a federal judge. secondly, embodied by two lawmakers, it begins from the logical premise that too big to fail is too big to exist. the third approach is embodied in a bill drafted by the senate of the banking committee to establish an executive branch resolution process for systematically important firms that is separate from bankruptcy. it therefore allows officials to move swiftly in advance to resolve a troubled institution in a crisis. as you may imagine the issues on wall street and here in the washington are the subject of some political humor, as you saw last night. >> the sec on friday charged goldman sachs with a civil fraud, alleging they sold securities than it would fail. if convicted, goldman could -- wh

came out about the same time as come on eileen. >> you know what?h us now pulitzer prize winning journalist and best selling fiction and nonfiction author anna quindlen. her new novel out now "every last one," i love it. i got to preread it because we got to do the more magazine reinvention convention tooth. >> that's right. bay month ago? >> gosh, was it? it was fun. the book is about an ordinary family that experiences this extraordinary tragedy. tell us a little bit about why you decided to write this. >> well, you know, there's some stories that start going around in your head, and you just want to share them with other people. i mean, i've been thinking a lot about our idea now that we can keep our kids safe no matter what. you know, we've got the child proof capitals. we've got the kid seats, that you will kind of stuff. only that doesn't allow for happenstance, circumstances. other people coming into our lives. i think that's something i've thought about a lot as a mother. >> yeah. the book is partly inspired by the attacks on 9/11. give us i