April Fool

April 1st was always great fun in this house. My four sons were always dependable tricksters. Today the joke is on us again. But it isn't funny.

He Who Must BE Obeyed and his family have been trying to solve a gritty problem for a niece, now 50, who was orphaned at 18 months when her parents were killed in a grizly auto accident.

She is in a desperate situation and needs some help. Money, time, distance, and the court system are all at issue and everyone is either too old, too poor, or too busy to do anything. Yesterday it was all figured out and today someone might just as well have shouted "April Fool!"