Did you avoid all 9/11 references yesterday?

I found myself, on the 15th anniversary of the terrible attacks on the U.S., skipping over a lot of the commemorations, not because it’s wrong to mark the day — at all — but because I’ve been more interested in grabbling with the question: Did we learn anything? I learned there’s a lot I don’t know. I …

Like father, like son and daughter

Back during my active parenting days, when things would get hairy, (I remember 12, 13, and 14 most acutely), I used to tell my son that my fondest prayer was that one day, he’d grow up and have a son just like him. Sometimes God answers prayers, and sometimes, She doubles up on them. See …