Di, at Pensitivity101, is our host for Share Your World each week. Here are her SYW questions for this week.

1. Growing up, were you closer to your mother or father, or was it a balance of both depending on the circumstances?

My father worked six days a week, often leaving for work before I got up in the morning and coming home after I was in bed. And on Sundays, his days off, he was too tired to pay much attention to me. So I wasn’t very close with him. I was closer to my mother, but when I was about ten, she started working from 9 to 5. So with both parents working, I became a latchkey kid. I had two older sisters, one 15 years older than me and the other nine years older than me. I was actually closer to them than to either of my parents.!

2. What was your favorite toy as a child, and do you still have it?

I was into cars when I was a young kid and I had a 1/24 diecast scale model of a red MG TD Classic. It was a thing of beauty and I loved it. No, I don’t still have it. Years later, though, I did buy a 1967 British Racing Green MG-B roadster.

3. Did you have any secrets?

Of course I have secrets, but if I told you what they are, I’d have to kill you.

4. What did you want to be when you grew up, and are you anywhere close?

I wanted to be a radio disc jockey. I actually took and passed an FCC radio operators licence test and got a job as the midnight to 6 am DJ for a small radio station in a semi-rural community in Maryland. But it sucked and it was a lonely job and I quit after three months.