My son was selected to represent his class today at the school's Thanksgiving writing assembly. He was beaming with pride, up on stage next to the principal and one kid from each grade. Before he even got through "I am happy to be thankful for..." I was totally wiping tears from my eyes, and that was before he handed me his certificate for his newly acquired superpower:  "Illustrious Writing." How does anybody ever get through this stuff without crying? I hven't figured it out yet.

Anyway...

 I'm  happy to be thankful for two amazing kids, a new job, the start of snowboarding season, some important new beginnings, and all the people who were disappointed when I neglected my Action Academy blog here at Open Salon for a month and wrote or called to ask me to please get back to it so they could keep up with our adventures. I'm back to it, and happy to report that Action Academy has been alive and well in the interim. Sorry for the suspense!

-- Colin Bane