I Suppose We Make Kids The Repository

What He Labels Sexual, She Labels Harassment.

On Television, Journalists Now Routinely Appear On Talk-shows-with-an-attitude Where They Are Encouraged To Say What They Think About Something They May Not Have Finished Thinking About.

We Spend January 1st Walking Through Our Lives, Room By Room, Drawing Up A List Of Work To Be Done, Cracks To Be Patched. Maybe This Year, To Balance The List, We Ought To Walk Through The Rooms Of Our Lives...not Looking For Flaws, But For Potential.

This Packrat Has Learned That What The Next Generation Will Value Most Is Not What We Owned, But The Evidence Of Who We Were And The Tales Of How We Loved. In The End, It's The Family Stories That Are Worth The Storage.

In Journalism, There Has Always Been A Tension Between Getting It First And Getting It Right.