I hope when I lose (most of) my mind I am sweet, like my granny who used to see sports (or anything) on TV and say, "Isn't it wonderful what young people can do!"

Once during an NBA broadcast, she said to a couch full of my cousins: "If you ever want to do any of that, I can help you, because I did it, and your dad and I helped him too."

My cousins and I thought it was hysterical at the time, because the whole family is pretty far from NBA material, but I think she meant that when we were in college she'd do everything within her power to help us out. She typed papers for my dad when he was an undergrad.