This story isn't about me whining about anything. I've had more than a good life and still might change a few things, it's about hope that has always been in my heart. Where one door would close, almost immediately another door would magically appear and reopen. HOPE is a good thing is what it says in Shawshank Redemption. More than just hope but to be able to take action of something and actually see change.

the beef vs. pork conversation.

the old fruit situation.

My family comes from a very tradition values system, so there isn't my room for my 'free' thought around most of them. Now some would disagree that the folks are very tolerant to new ideas, but it also must be said that to change their opinion on any array of topics, they are "pretty set in their ways"... Conservative, Christian, fundamentalist, family values, pro-life, pro-church, fag-bashing, right to lifers, and on and on. So there aren't terrible things in that, just sometime, {almost always] they take it to the extreme.