Sterling Terrell

recovering economist

Sixties Fantasy

Sixties Fantasy

A sixties fantasy come to life?

Uh, this house sounds amazing…

Just for fun, I asked Grok to generate an image based on this description.

Imagine Johnny Cash strolling by headed to the kitchen.

My father was by now living in Tennessee, and my mother, Dick, and my sisters and I moved to Ventura, to another house on the hill overlooking the ocean. That house was a sixties fantasy come to life—a low-slung, single-story ranch with natural stone and rock accents. It had a tiny outdoor area and an enormous indoor pool area with hot pink furniture and awnings. A beaded curtain separated the sunken living room from the rest of the house. The den featured a wall made of boulders with a built-in oven, and my mother and Dick had a round bed in the master bedroom.

– Rosanne Cash, Composed (Amazon)

Your Daughter’s Weight

Your Daughter’s Weight

How does a father talk to a daughter about his daughter’s weight?

Trick question.

He doesn’t.

That should be left to mom.

It’s a tough and complex discussion – no matter who does it.

But a dad risks irreparable damage pointing out a need for weight loss/fitness in his little girl.

The best a dad can do – I think – is to be a great example.

(I could do better.)

Run, lift, and eat well.

Get ripped for that girl.

The other problem was my body, which in retrospect I think of as an adorable butterball but which at the time seemed like a corpulent rebuke to my mother. I famously broke the zipper on my mother’s wedding gown when I tried it on at the age of ten, a story she took great pleasure in repeating for many years. She was very proud of her own ninety-eight pounds.

– Rosanne Cash, Composed (Amazon)

Sterling Terrell