I hope that is the case. It was certainly my intention.

We are quite an energetic bunch, opinionated, overly principled perhaps, and prone to outbursts. I think my role in the family has been to work to maintain a collegiate ethos and to smooth over some of the sharper confrontations.

I have not always been successful (who has) and sometimes I have not acted well. And the time that I did act badly was noticibly not good for anyone.