We decided to join the forum to learn how other family businesses operate. We want to learn how they deal with various situations an opportunities.

I tried to avoid the research, but that's what I most enjoyed. It's like a treasure hunt doing research because one discovery leads to another. You find these moments when you realize that this would make good drama.

It's interesting to me, this sense of legacy and how far we can get from our roots. I find it really interesting what gets passed down, and how arbitrary that can be.

I was looking at a lot of different things, searching for something to write about.

The buffalo is all gone, and an Indian can't catch enough jack rabbits to subsist himself and his family, and then, there aren't enough jack rabbits to catch. What are they to do?

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.