"Under Siege," with Steven Segal, The movie poster read, "It's not a job-It's an adventure!" The plot looked ridiculous with Steven Segal playing a re...ired Navy Seal working as a cook who single handily stops a terrorist plot. Ha! This I gotta see!I walked into the theater with pretty, low expectations. I walked out of the theater two hours later scratching my head. Why do they keep letting Steven Segal make movies? I would gladly give Segal five bucks a year if he would just stop acting. Just. He urged the others into song and, once finished, Helen removed the shells and cut the pie -- and three more just like it -- so that everyone could partake of Enola's treat.Hope pushed her way through the gathered people to shove something out at the birthday girl. The soon-to-be ten year old daughter of Helen and the Mariner announced proudly, "I made it."The gift was tubular in shape, about a foot long, and 'wrapped' within a palm frond cover. Enola removed the frond wrapper and stared at the. We figured that the kids would like to make a big deal out of it if they fully understood what was going on, so we decided to make it an event on their 16th birthday. By then, they would be old enough to understand what it meant to have the treatment, and they should fully appreciate it. Anyway, Joe would be the next one in line: sex for his 15th birthday and longevity for his 16th. That struck me as a rite of passage a hell of a lot better than circumcision!We had assigned one of the rooms of. Daddy placed his big paw over my right hand. Of course he would speak for everyone. “You’re in St. Luke’s. Bottom line, you’re okay, Winter. Full recovery.”I tried to say, “Okay.” It was a mangled gurgle. My mother placed a cantilevered straw between my cracked lips. Once a parent... Daddy said, “You have a concussion. More than mild, but not too threatening. You whacked your head pretty hard against your window. The side airbag didn’t deploy.”He took a breath, “Your left collarbone has a.