November 8, 2012
On our vacation to the East Coast last summer, I spent time with my childhood friend, Virginia, and her 4 kids. Her oldest child, Micah, had just turned 15 when I saw him. I don’t usually expect 15 year-old boys to be great conversationalists. And for the most part Micah was succinct, though polite when […]
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September 27, 2012
Our middle son, Daniel, just began middle school. A middle child in middle school. It’s gone about as you would expect from that combination – not too well. Daniel now attends our neighborhood middle school, but comes to it from an elementary school across town with few friends in tow. The challenge is that most […]
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