We have gone through a slew of cars in the past ten years, but my favorite one has to be our kids’ bright red 1995 Honda Civic with only 22,000 miles on it.
My husband’s uncle generously passed the car onto our daughter in 2005 for her sixteenth birthday. Uncle Don was already elderly when [...]
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Ever since I can remember I have loved the night.
As little kids we played flashlight tag after dinner, and in the winter my mom took us skating on the town pond under a full moon. And what could be more thrilling to a child than sitting around a toasty campfire in the dark roasting [...]
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A Depressing Era for Teenagers
(reprinted from THE WEEK Jan 29 2010)
These are hard times for teenagers. A recent study of high school and college students, built on data from psychological surveys in use since 1938, has found that anxiety, depression, and other mental-health issues are far more prevalent among youth today than during the Great [...]
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