This is outside my normal rotation of topics, but all the recent drama over Trump and Musk brought it to mind.
When my late father described his family, he said “They all just worked on the water. People around here didn’t do grand things.”
It’s true, given the usual definition of grand. We’ve never had much truck with wealth and fame. Our only real connection to the world of big shots was a little incident that made the news back in 1989. It involved my father, and an Atlantic City casino owner named Donald Trump.