I talk to Michael now, and he'll say, "Oh, you're doing so many different vocal things; I wish you would have let me have you stretch your voice when you were younger," but I was too scared, and write about things I was too scared to say at that point, because I was 20.
If there are dramatic differences, talk as a family about what makes sense financially and what would really stretch you or leave you with too much debt in the long run.
Maybe, if you'd stretch it, occasional ball-busting commentators or grand-standing blowhards, but none of them with an ounce of the self-effacing humor or hardcore passion for singular causes or mind-curving bombast as the original.
There will always be something that 'pops up', as well as interruptions, sick days, days where you just don't focus as much as you normally would, so stretch out your due date to allow for these.
Q: If you were elected chair, how would you use the position to stretch science budgets?
If someone died over a new Sony media player (and don't think that's such a stretch), would you be making the same stink?
But you're coming all the way from Delaware, so perhaps you would consider stretching the budget and eating somewhere memorable.
Swan-diving into one, the top of your head would feel so much more gravitational pull than the tips of your toes that you would be stretched, longer and longer.
We'd finish up with a Mont d'Or – one so ripe that it would ooze and stretch as you served it – and my friend Laurent's slow-roasted spiced pineapple with madeleines.
