Yes, I really think that you and Stephanie certainly do excel in the art of writing fiction. So persuasive, you almost the impossible seem plausible.
Which reminds me that I much enjoyed reading the novel Heidi, by Johanna Spyri, which is a book that I was reading at Grandma and Grandpa Calkins' house, because it was on the shelf in the back bedroom where I was sleeping at the time (maybe age 12). These are some of the things that we get from being the Calkins branch of the family, and not some other branch. Even so, the prospect of retreating to some mountain cottage to shepherd sheep for the rest of my life is not exactly what I had in mind for retirement plans. I enjoyed reading about that, but to actually go to Switzerland and have to pay such exorbitantly high prices for everything under the sun seems a step too extreme. I cannot imagine going there myself.
