Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.

You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers

When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing down; whether experience, so much touted among adults as the thing children lack, is not actually a progressive dilution of the essentials by the trivialities of living.

He said it was the biggest growing-up experience he had. He talked about jumping off the ship to swim in the ocean.

It is pretty amazing to still see him going, but growing up with him you just knew it was something that he loved and he was going to stick with and try to be the best that he could at it.

It was pretty cool. He talked about growing up in this state and playing at Central Arkansas. He mostly answered questions.