Open Thread

Rob, my condolences as well. I’m sure it is a strange place to be.

I know someone who was adopted at a very young age, who, as a thirty-something adult, tried to find his birth parents and reconnect. With the help of someone who has access to a lot of databases, he eventually found his biological mother. He made contact with the family, only to find out from his new half sister, that the mother was just coming out of federal prison for embezzlement. Turned out she had a gambling addiction, and had stolen from her employer. He did meet her, and the rest of her family, and they wanted to keep in touch with him, but the whole experience totally freaked him out, and he never re-established contact again.

Sometimes these stories are like a “Dateline” happy story, sometimes not. All that to say, that your new family are just people who are also going through their stuff, and finding out about you may be as traumatic for them, as to you dealing with them. Take it slow, don’t expect them to be better or worse than strangers you meet somewhere, and be open to what happens. You may not be able to choose family, but you, and they, can choose how to go forward. I wish you the best of luck, and I hope they are good people, and you can enrich each other’s lives in some positive way.

I agree on the “backwards” thing but what’s so bad about a baseball cap? I mean if Bernie Madoff can look good in one, why not?

However, I would issue a decree that those under twenty remove the 59Fifty label from the brim.

God I hate baseball caps.

BRG;

If I could magically become the “king” of the US, I would automatically issue about 20 “decrees” of life as I think it should be.

One of these decrees would be that men over 18 are prohibited from wearing baseball caps in any venue other than a sports stadium or playing field. Furthermore, if a grown man were to be caught with a baseball cap on backwards, they would be banished to a remote island for a year, or until they learn to act like an adult.

You look at guys in the 1920’s or 30’s, they looked like men, not overgrown boys.

And that is my sermon for today. 😉

“Is “chocolate cake” code for something???”

No, but apparently “choholiatist cake” is.