[Lancey Howard]

It's got to be a joke. That painting the house thing every year was the real tip off.

Agreed. The house painting, the "pitch a tent, camp for a week, fish, hike, play guitar, and listen to audio books by the campfire", and the "10 of our family get-togethers" (that's at least 1 per week!) were dead give-aways.

This article was written in a college apartment by some hard-smoking, hard-laughing juniors. Good for them.

[wbill]

You know, I think that this piece is on the up and up.

Here's the author's website. http://www.talboldo.com/ It's not a long stretch to imagine her writing this piece, athough she supposedly likes "Ayn Rand".