day at home. i was escaping into fantasy and science fiction. science fiction first and then fantasy. when you lost your pro brothers it was always dad and the boys. peter and paul but dad and the boys. and most of your other siblings had left because they were at college or had families of their own, it was mostly you and your mom. yes. that is a difficult thing. i talked to howard stearn about this as well. he said he always felt he had to treat his mom like a china tea cut. i always viewed my mom as a space alien who landed on this planet and whosesh ship was immobilized and i had to protect her and show her how to live in this world. and i felt that until the day she died. and now i look back at it and i realize whun one of my mom s grt