Our daughter, by the way, is now a Ph.D. scientist working as a clinical chemist, and our son is in training to become an M.D.-Ph.D. neuropathologist.
His son-in-law trains Airbus pilots in Dubai.
When he does, he might come to see his own son in spring training.
Palpably less enchanted by the encroaching American are the brothers' discreetly anti-Semitic mother, her pious second husband and their impressionable little monster-in-training son.
We sat together one evening at the bar at Londel's, a soul-food restaurant in Harlem, as he scrolled through a BlackBerry on which he had seemingly downloaded the entirety of known basketball knowledge, which he was doling out to his son in their private training sessions.
My son-in-law, Peter Cazalet, who trains race horses — my ex-stepson-in-law, to be precise — has a butler, a chef, a valet, all that sort of thing.
At one point it seemed that son Robert might be in training for the corner office.
Franck's first novel to be translated into English opens with a woman abandoning her young son in a German train station in 1945, then reconstructs how her heart was broken in stages amid the decadence of Weimar Berlin.
"They had a fight club at his high school," said Ms. Redford, who ultimately allowed her son to train in hopes of channeling his aggression.
Just ask the newest fashion-editor-in-training, Abe Chabon (son of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael).
As much as she likes to wash dishes, Ms. Burton also has a dishwasher-in-training: her son, Morgan.
