The Clubs
We've been ripping our basement apart, a retirement activity if I ever saw one. We demolished a powder room that we stopped using a couple decades ago--fortunately, when we opened the toilet, we didn't find any dead critters in there. We pulled down sheetrock from waist-high down, which means ripping out the insulation as well. There was a unused bar in the basement and it's now in the dumpster. Finally we pulled up the carpet from the basement stairs. That night, we sank into our matching recliners in the family room. Dan looked wearily at me and said, "We're never doing that again." Damn right. Anyhow, while demolishing, I've had a lot of time to think, too much time perhaps. Pulling down the powder room walls, I composed the following letter to my Congressman, Erik Paulsen (R-MN). I originally intended to send it to all members of Congress and the President. However, as I researched doing that, it became clear that members of ...