Tiny Talk with Mike Downing

This is a tricky intro to write, since Mike and I have been friends our entire lives . That's an understatement, probably. There's a scene in The Royal Tenenbaums where friend of the family Eli Cash (played by Owen Wilson) says "I always wanted to be a Tenenbaums". That's me with Mike and his family. I always wanted to be a Downing. Mike's created his own beautiful family a few hours from where we…