Sometimes I don't feel like making friends, but most of the time the Gemini dragon in me can't help it; I just want to be loved.
Between telling our children to "put down that old candy wrapper" and "only use nice hands, please," we were somehow able to cobble together a conversation, and I learned that he was a semipro football player.This was fascinating to me — I like to know people's stories, but also, when does a regular 46-year-old playground mom get to rub shoulders with a 24-year-old football player?He told me his story: He didn't take football as seriously as he wished he would've when he was in high school, though he was good at it and it might have taken him somewhere, and now he was trying to reconnect with his dream.