I just had a glaucoma scare as my eye doctor sent me to a specialist, but he said I'm fine. That was a relief.
I had a team of 20 this year, most of them girls. I have all kinds of kids. I have one that is a textbook skier and is probably technically better than I am. I have another that is so aggressive, she scares me. I have one that is a rower and works out with her team at 5am most mornings and is so powerful it's scary. Those three are just a joy to watch. But the rest are characters, too. One showed us all a sideshow she made the night before, planning out her life. She showed us the universities she would attend, the career she would have in sports management, what he future husband would look like, where they would live in London, what their vacation home would be, the names of all three of their children, the other vacation home in the Hamptons, their eventual divorce and how she would have an existential crisis and move to Seattle.
I mean, she had it all planned, right down to her retirement.
It was all delivered seriously and matter-of-fact. I was howling.