I'm thinking it's got to do with all the "downer" talk about politics, and results of politics, and less on detecting and kidding around with each other. I'm hoping it will go back to the way it was. We used to have a rule at our family dinner table ... if you don't have something positive to say, don't say it ...... now the kids are grown up saying that crap to their kids .... while Nancy and I eat our dinners on TV trays waiting for the kids to call with something positive to tell or say .... which they do dang near daily, sometimes multiple times daily. Life is good!
