General Discussion

I think that if I can change, anyone can. There was a time when I thought that looking out for others required a physical fight. While I was out weeding the garden today, after reading through responses here, I remembered my younger son telling me about what his friend's father -- from a village about 25 miles away, where teens fighting was a multi-generational event -- said when he learned I was my boy'[s father. He said that he watched me beat the hell out of three guys who were pushing a kid from my village around. Seeing that convinced him not to participate with his three buddies. That, of course, was a long, long time ago!

These days, the guy always invites my son & I to his Super Bowl parties. We love watching our grandchildren play together while the other adults are focused on the game. Yet I have enough of an Irish ego to say I don't mind when he introduces me to new people, and tells the story from the ever-increasing distant past.

Hey -- my European daughter, her husband, and my granddaughter will be visiting in about ten days.