I'm not a meme-ish kinda blogger, but when I saw Big D's post over at Texican Tattler, I just wanted to post one myself.

Here's the question: If you could have dinner with any three people you want, who would they be and what would you have for dinner? One deceased guest (presumably brought back to life for your meal) is allowed.

This one is easy for me. My meal partners would be my brothers, Dick and Dan, and our mother, who passed away on Thanksgiving Day of 1969 when I was 13, after she had suffered through years-long illness. It wouldn't even bother me if we could only talk about things that happened before her death, because that's what I'd really want to talk to her about, and of course, I'd want to afford my brothers the same opportunity. There are so many things I'd like to ask her about since I was just too young to get much of a feel for her attitudes, opinions and experiences before she left us.

The meal? Dan and I love to make and eat barbecue (Dick loves to eat it, too), and I can't imagine that Mama wouldn't like it as well. Add to that some corn on the cob, green beans, black-eyed peas, dinner rolls and Mama's chocolate cake.

And if we could bend the rules and add one more departed person, Dad would join us, too. I know he loved barbecue.

Yeah, it's not the sort of answer folks are looking for, but it's my honest answer. That'd make my year. Shoot, it'd make the rest of my life!

So how about you? Who'd you love to have dinner with?