[VaSteve]

Originally posted by Oh Haha
My mentor told me "You are a man, now." I didn't know what he meant until a few weeks later. It's something almost every guy has to go through on the road of life and I can say it changed me in some ways.

I'm sorry to hear about your loss as well. My Dad passed about 3 years ago. For some reason it has hit me especially hard this week and I don't know why.

A couple of months ago, my Mom moved to a 55+ community about 4 blocks away so she comes over often. We had to help her clean out 20 years of stuff from her old house...stuff of hers, my Dad's, mine and my brothers. There's something sad about putting stuff out on the curb that has been around so long. Old gifts, toys, whatever, sold for pennies or picked over by the yard sale crews, ultimately to be chucked or donated to charity. This should have been done by my folks long ago.

Those are the kinds of jobs that make your feel really old...and like a man.

It sucks.