Seems like old times...

...but only for a second. Then I remember the mortgage, my smirky teenaged children [ who look so similar to the way I used to, somehow] and it all comes back into focus.

The day this was taken I was happy, wearing a new [ scratchy] shirt and it was as cool a fall day as ever happens in east Texas. My neighbour Steve's mother took this picture. Their family had just moved to Texas from Los Altos and were told that since nobody in Texas had long hair, their dad suggested they have it all cut off. Boy were they mad when they arrived and half our high school looked like Duane Allman.