Somewhere in a dusty corner of our basement, tucked away in a cardboard box, lies an essential album in my life. I think it may have been essential to every female I knew. Grease, for me, came out just when I started to move from being a bespeckled 8th grader who had just grown six [...]
Dear 18, It has been 35 days since life grounded you without cause, and we just want to say thank you for the elegant way you’ve risen to this challenge. Your senior year ended just as you were getting to the best part. Then this weird, dangerous virus shrank your social circle like accidentally microwaved [...]
We celebrated a friend's 17th birthday last night. Since then, "At Seventeen," Janis Ian's 1975 hit song, has been stuck in my head. "I learned the truth at 17, that love was meant for beauty queens..." The truth about 17 is that it has always been a challenging age, a plateau of poignancy from which [...]
We'll always be grateful to the teachers who gave our kids a voice and showed them how to use it effectively. As I've written about before, all four of our kids benefited from an outstanding public education system that provided them a safe environment to test themselves, to develop academically, to foster empathy and, therefore, [...]
Thirty-five years after we graduated high school, my classmates and I have learned a thing or two about success. We are professors now, business owners and executives, architects, attorneys, doctors, engineers, teachers, photographers, farmers, writers and more. We are also grandparents, parents, husband, wives, friends, and co-workers. The luckiest among us are still active sons [...]