HEADS UP FROM THE HEAD ELF

Back when our daughter, Lisa, was 16, she was a normal hard-to-live-with teenager. That year, I warned her and she got a lump of coal for Christmas. The next year, I got it back. The following year, she received it again.

• This tit for tat has been going on now for 36 years.

FRANK KOLENDA • GRAND RAPIDS, MI