The majority of my best blog material is a direct result of the tragedies and comedies that play out on the homefront.  These are the people that I know and this is what I write. I write to entertain myself, and there is therapeutic value in it. As my brood matures I realize that I am going to have to have to start writing fiction or at least cleverly disguise the epic adventures of the Ying family and pass it off as fiction.