This is a profound season for 3,245,900 young adults in America: graduating from high school, and they represent a unique generation. They – and their younger siblings – live in a period unlike any before: America has been at war – continually – through their entire lifetimes. Years ago, the Joy family were contemporaries in …
Monthly Archives: May 2019
The last message you’ll hear, graduates, before the bell
Graduates from all grade levels – elementary, middle, high, undergrad and graduate schools – are lining up to “walk” at their respective graduation ceremonies. For the high school-and-beyond graduate events, the restless students and their attentive families will likely be subjected to untested advice from a special celebrity guest who cleared the ever-changing vetting criterion …
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Your identity is on the line
That sick feeling you had when you got rolling today; what is that? After you finished the get-ready process and tuned in on what’s waiting for you – out there, in the world you’re commuting into – how did that tune you up for your day? Oh, yeah: we’re at war… and you’re in the …
When first isn’t first anymore – the Kentucky Derby
Parties were widespread over the weekend for the Kentucky Derby and Cinco de Mayo. For the Kentucky  Derby Mint Julep set, the festivities on Saturday happened at Churchill Downs, the iconic Thoroughbred racetrack in Louisville, Kentucky (home to the fried chicken made famous last week, on Capitol Hill). Opened in 1875, in its first year of …
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