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The Real Bomb

The Real Cost My daughter emailed me this poem she wrote for her high school English class assignment.  It set off a torrent of emotion within me.  Here it is: Growing Up we used to have more fun playing games and laughing and feeling freer to be ourselves having not a care about what the …

Rites of Passage

A Full-Blown Rite of Passage Tomorrow I take my 24 year-old daughter to NYC where she will begin life, post-grad school completion, as a full-fledged, independent adult.  She will move into her first apartment, as well as, for the first time, not be attending school since beginning kindergarten. This is a full-blown rite of passage.  …