Early Morning Phone Call

I don't know about you but whenever I get a phone call late at night or relatively early in the morning I worry that it might be unwanted news. When our children were teenagers phone calls late at night were particularly unnerving. As they grew up and moved away late night or early phone calls usually meant the car was broke or someone was ill.

Well I got an uncharacteristically early call this morning. Steeling myself for what news might be on the other end of the phone connection I aswered somewhat hesitantly. It was our son Jeff who was very excited to tell us that he had made the front page of the Houston Chronicle! Evil Knevel had made the top along with an article about police officers. Jeff is at the bottom of the page BUT he IS on page one!

Jeff is a high school teacher (as is his wife). Team spirit in hand he wrote a rap early in the school year about the football team and it's this team spirit that had been the emphasis of the article in the paper.

Jeff's a cool guy and we're happy for his 15 minutes of fame!

So glad that today started out with that wonderful early morning phone call. I only wish all phone calls could be such happy news!

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