By Kristin on 1/8/2009 10:58 AM

I don’t know if it’s because 2008 finished with such a resounding THUD, but I can’t help feeling that things have got to get better all around.
At least the holidays were a wonderful beginning to the New Year, with lots of family time and laughter. I spent a few days on my own with my parents, which I have not done for some time. We enjoyed much good food together, as well as some ‘interesting’ wines of my dad’s.
My father is a very intelligent, learned man. He is an intense professional who is strongly identified by his career. He takes the passions in his life very seriously: his work, his wife, his children, his skiing and those ‘finer things in life’. My dad’s favourite expression when enjoying himself over dinner with the family, or while on the ski lift is “the rest is all bull@!?#!”

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