Tastes change

What was I thinking?

I'm amazed at how frequently I look at the things around me and realize they are the things that I HATED when I was a kid. How does that happen?

A few days ago I went to the warehouse store and bought a 3 pound bag of those nasty rice crackers that I wouldn't touch when my Dad brought them home from Japan. On the same trip I bought a one gallon jar of sauerkraut. Why not? I have several pounds of hotdogs in the fridge. And what self-respecting kid from Idaho would ever eat raw fish?

Similarly, who would have EVER thought that I would ever own 5 or 6 Willie Nelson albums? Certainly not the teenager version of me. The teenager version of me would have kicked my ass for buying a Dwight Yoakum album.