That one time
"That time you peed your pants." --- We all have *that* time we did it, right? If you're really, really lucky, it was while you were still young enough to be excused, or old enough to just laugh it off instead. Or, you might be like me, whose claim to the experience is firmly in my late 20s (too old AND too young!) The details are a little hazy a few years down the road, but I remember some things with crystal clarity. I was with a bunch of family members, having wandered down to a park near my aunt and uncle's house in St. Paul , Minnesota , during a summer family reunion. My husband Sam, stepdaughter Shaylyn, sister Jen, mom Carla, and some assorted cousins, aunts, uncles and children belonging to the clan were there, and some subset of us were attempting to play baseball with sticks and a terrible old softball chewed up by someone's dog. I don't remember precisely what I was supposed to be doing at the exact moment it happened--the...