washing dishes: a father’s glimpses

During childhood, what was endlessly discussed around the dining room table?

• School days
• Sporting events, scores, teammates.
• Dates that we’d return to Colorado or Virginia, and for how long.
• Surreal and supernatural experiences.
• Friendships. Conversations. Party planning.
• Books — Watership Down, Indian in the Cupboard, Autobiography of Malcolm X; Nadine Gordimer,
• Politics
• Differences: in opinions, skin tones, hair textures, length, places, teachers, outdoor fun.
• Diplomatic immunity. Institutions.
• Meeting the Foreign Minister or another government official.
• That having an affair, likely a one night stand, with Peter Jennings was permissible.
• Currencies, costs of goods sold at the market.
• Royals and royalty.
• Road trips, new adventures
• Speculation over Dad’s Peter Jennings’ equivalent.