For as long as I can remember when my father arrived home from reserve duty in the military he brought each of my brothers and my sister a pack of M M's Extending past his service as a naval officer he and my mother continued the tradition when we returned from college Each time we showed up with our luggage sometimes filled with dirty laundry we'd walk into our rooms to find a bag of M M's waiting on the pillow When they moved from the house where they raised five sons and a daughter their new home carried the [... more]