Role reversal

When you're a kid, you love to get taken places by your parents -- like when my dad took me to my first Mets game (1968) and my first Broadway musical (1970), or when my mom took me to see "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." Now, I get to take both my kids AND my dad to things. Just this year, since we moved to Alabama, I was able to take my dad to the opera ("Cold Sassy Tree" at the Atlanta Opera), the Tuscaloosa Symphony and my middle daughter's dance performances. This summer, I'm going to try to take my dad to a Braves game, and maybe this fall a Falcons game, as getting tickets should be pretty easy. This is sweet payback.