A lovely, moving story as always Kerry!

I got the same power company line from my dad. If you really wanted to see him flip, all you had to do was make a long-distance phone call.

My intention was to describe the circumstances and, in some cases, long-term effects of children brought up by parents who survived the Great Depression. I write about my generation by characterizing my self in the harshest way. I have indeed learned to be generous and take great pleasure in helping others. But that wasn’t the part of the story I was telling.

Good point. That certainly wasn’t my intention. My own children are very careful with their resources as are lots of people. And for lots of people coming out of tough circumstances, many become awfully loose with their money. My goal was to simply show how some of us were raised as a way of explaining some of our proclivities.

It was a real treat to buy lunch. I always had a good lunch but it was a brown bag lunch after all, not especially cool and never as good.

You only have to look at recent economic events to see that we could use a little more saving and less spending. Here’s hoping that people will think about today’s message and not just think it’s the older generation boasting how tough they had it and how easy you young folks live. You know – “I had to walk to school, uphill both ways in the snow.”

Keep the communications flowing.