Compliments

Are they in the eye of the beholder, the presence of the actor, or words of the writer?

It’s not every day you get a compliment, or at least I don’t. When you’ve been married for nearly 20 years and have four kids, including 3 teenagers, you’re lucky if people even talk to you. So, when someone does say something nice about me (and nowadays I’m not so sure these are even compliments as much as they are just observations), I tend to remembe…