Rites and Passage
My son Charlie has begun his first day of college classes this morning. Yesterday we moved him, in many trips from the parking lot to the 4th floor, into his first dorm, and tomorrow he will have two complete strangers sharing the rooms with him, another first experience. Oh, the suspense of that one! We did the necessary and ritual shopping trip, twice, in fact, because of things bought on the first trip--lamps--in which others were forgotten: lightbulbs. He watched over $300 slide out of his... Sign in to see full entry.