When I was little, we did not have much in the way of money. I realize it was a simpler time, but my mother would guide us to the things she could afford to buy us for Christmas and play them up ahead of time instead of us…

As I sat quietly in the distance, I watched with anticipation a little boy holding tightly to his dad. “Are you ready,” the father would say to his son. In the shallow end of the swimming pool, the father was attempting to teach his child how to swim…