Older and Wiser: The older I get the more I am able to recognize those special moments that I know that my brain is going to catalog for later reference. Those things never occured to me. A moment with my father when he is teaching me to use a camera, who would have realized that moment would be so etched into my gray matter. Mom watching a movie with me, my sister stabbing me in the head.

But I have realized over the past few years that certain moments are just going to stick with me. I suppose that someday I will be sitting in a chair unable to remember my name, but these moments, I believe, will be the ones that keep coming back.

Yesterday I had one of those moments. I was sitting on the porch just enjoying the peace and quiet when Tori decided to join me. She said, "Daddy, when you make enough money can we move to the city?" I stopped and said, "Tori, listen. What do you hear? A bunch of song birds in the meadow, crickets, the sounds of nature. It is so quiet here that I can hear the airconditioner running in that house 100 yards away." She stopped rocking in her chair and listened. A slight smile came across her face as she listened. I was right. "Okay," she continued, "can we get a house in the city and keep on here?" There is no arguing with a teenage daughter who suffers terribly from being too far from the mall.