I'm not sure I was ready for this answer. It's pretty ingenious, Mom. On trash day we found a cinder block by the side of the road. Scott decided after Christmas that college was the route to take. He enrolled in his local community college to study, of all things, writing.
Kids can enhance our writing and they can hinder our writing.
They occasionally cause desperate cases of Writer's Block. Scott has significantly contributed in all of these areas. But besides putting out feelers to find his way in the world, he, too, is writing. That slows the sprouting of my new gray hairs and eases the defining lines on my face. Knowing that the path he is now attempting will lead him not necessarily to wealth and fame, but certainly to an interesting and fulfilling future, is payment enough for me.