My dad turned 61 over the weekend. He doesn't look 61 to me. Against the stereotype, he doesn't ever drink or smoke (or beat my mom)...

Over the years, mom's grown more paranoid than dad... while dad's steadily losing the paranoia that seemed to overshadow him during my childhood years. An above-normal level of paranoia seems to run in both the Yim and Fu families.

I don't much mind my own paranoia, though. I'd rather be suspicious, guarded, and prepared than naive and regularly unpleasantly surprised.