This week's best of Me:

this is a character. A man. Almost 80 years old. 2 marriages. 6 kids. The youngest still in college. He worked his entire life, finally retiring when his youngest child was in her 2nd year of college. The family still needed his income, but he just couldn't work anymore. He's well past retiring age so his daughter understands. His wife doesn't. She's working two jobs, trying to make ends meet. He spends his days online, checking emails, falling for gimmicks, thinking he's gonna get millions of dollars from the UN from some foreign bank. He sees his family struggling to get by and wants to make them happy again so he starts working with a couple guys on selling bonds. Again, he thinks he's going to get millions of dollars when the deal goes through. Every time, there's a catch or a fee. He moves his family into a new house but he borrows money to make a payment on it. He alienates people by not paying them back because his "money" hasn't come in yet. He believes it's all true and you want to believe in him, but you know deep down all hell is about to break loose. Best case scenario, you become a millionaire. Worst case, you get evicted from your house for the second time in 3 years and are left wondering, "What happens now?" Is this man delusional? Sick? Stubborn? Hopeful? Senile? I don't know, because this man is my father.