Paul's Corner

My daughter turned ten yesterday!! I have three daughters - 12, 10 and almost 6. My wife and I occasionaly go through our photos of being young spunky things and then having kids and watch as each photo over the years start to tell that awful truth - ......we are older!! When one of your kids turn a year older I think somewhere you feel like you turned a year older too! Of course the problem with this is that as I have three kids that means I turn a year older three times a year!!! Hey, look at the photos, they seem to mock me with truth.

What doesnt help of corse is that I auditioned recently for the lead in a TV series being shot in Australia. It was about a 35 year old man going through a divorce and dealing with life. They were constantly doing flash backs to when he and his then prospective wife were 25 and getting it on. Well the casting people loved my audition and thought I played 35/25 very bloody well.....BUT......They felt I was too old for the 25 year old flash backs (dont ask what they thought about me being the 35 year old guy, I presume they liked that). They looked at putting me in the supporting lead role of the best freind who is 40. Guess what...they said I looked too young! MMMMMMMMM.....

....too old to play young and too young to play old.

Sometime you feel like you just cant win. But that is just me feeling sorry for myself.

I am very happy being me wether they are or not. And for the love that I get from children I am happy to turn three years older every year. Three times the FUN!