Advice from a small town girl

I love the Olympics, and have been spending all my spare time (and quite a bit that wasn’t spare) watching them on television.

But I must confess that the athletes are a mystery to me. I want to know where that drive comes from.

I don’t have the drive to walk to the end of the driveway and back.

I frequently am heard to say that one of my siblings is missing the “consequence” gene; that the idea that “if I do this, then that will happen” is missing.

I appear to be missing that gene also. It’s a double-edged sword, as it happens, because in my case it’s more of “If I don’t do this then that won...