Dear Editor
We had a preview of what聽Thanksgiving dinner conversations could look like this year when some of our family assembled for a meal and someone we hadn鈥檛 seen for a long time spoke up during a lull after the pie.鈥⊿he said, 鈥淪o, you heard about your aunt discovering water on Mars?鈥濃�∟obody moved their eyes, especially the in-laws. The people under 35 kept their faces absolutely neutral.鈥╓e resisted聽our old fall back, 鈥淗ow 鈥榖out those Blue Jays?鈥� 鈥↖nstead, someone said, 鈥淩eally?鈥濃�ˋnd, as it turns out, Aunt Elena, an astrophysicist, really聽did discover water on Mars. 鈥∕aybe even a lake. 鈥∣r an aquifer. We had to google that, too.
Janet Beaubien
Battleford
