Birthday bonfire

We just got off the phone with the quite enebriated and not-so-elusive 21-year-old offspring. It is 2:00 a.m. in Scotland and he and 20 of his closest friends have built a bonfire on the shore of the North Sea in honor of his BD. They brought their own bottles of Scotch and beer to help celebrate the event. His experience up until now has been far more interesting than mine was. My entire school experience was in Texas. That's not to say Texas isn't interesting, because Texas is wonderful. But the EO is not just out of Virginia for his education; he's out of the country. And his education is certainly more than academic, I'd say. I once told him that he should cherish these years at university...they are the years he will spend the rest of his life trying to recapture. Lucky EO.