Who Really Knew Dad?

Do you see your father the same way you did 10 years ago. Do your children have the same heroic impression of you they held last decade?

This week's objet d'eBay is a 1998 memoir by Reeve Lindbergh, daughter of legendary — although the legend was dimmed for many of the public by his Nazi leanings — American hero Charles Lindbergh. Her thoughts on her high-standards dad are offered in interesting parallel to an essay in her new collection, "Forward from Here," which includes an essay about how her life and thoughts have changed with the news that daddy Charles also happened to have a secret European family she never learned about until after both her father and mother had passed on.

** Perhaps dad's shouldn't have secrets, or maybe there should just be a law that kids can't learn them ... if they're ucomfortable ones? **