[JohnZ]

Cut kids Jan. Mine call me Papa John. I used to call my grandfather "Gigi"...it's a Ukrainian endearment. He ate perogies slathered in butter, kielbasi, and other slavic health foods. He was a horseman in the old country and came to the U.S. around 1910 I think. He worked is body hard in the anthracite coal mines of northeastern Pennsylvania and he lived to be 96. There's a lesson to be learned there I think. I regret not spending more time talking with him about the old days. But, I remember a lot of what he did tell me. I intend to pass-on a lot of those memories to my grandkids when they're a little older...they're 4, 7 and 10.