When I was young and my brother even younger, he had a baseball coach who
was 19 years old. I remember thinking at the time that 19 seemed like such
a grown up age. The coach was out of high school and on his own -- grown
up, indeed. Of course, I eventually made it to 19 myself and felt like anything
but an adult. I hadn't accomplished much this side of a diploma and I was
still two whole years away from legally drinking. There was no way 19 counted
as grown up.
In the years since, I've sort of... read more
