Word: dads
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...Scoobie, the dog, roused Mom when I arrived, and she got up to watch the last three innings with me, and to do some catching up. I was on the couch Dad used to use to watch NESN (he died three years ago), and Mom was on hers. ?They?re going good,? she said. ?First place...
...granddaughter (who insisted I sign her Junie B. Jones book, even though I demurred that I had nothing to do with writing it). Mrs. Donahue, my old doubles partner in the city tennis tournament, dropped by. (I had to sign her book ?Bobby? Sullivan.) Old customers of my dad?s at the Union National Bank and my mom?s at the Jeanne D?Arc Credit Union-unknown to me, but wanting to be remembered to Mom-showed up. High school friends. Strangers. A guy who worked security for the Patriots who never took his sunglasses off and wanted his book...
...Although," she adds, "undeniably, morals are drawn." But she doesn't make it easy. In Goblet, the good-hearted Cedric Diggory dies for no reason. In Phoenix, we learn that Harry's dad, whom he idealized, had been an arrogant bully. People aren't good and bad by nature; they change and transform and struggle. As Dumbledore tells Harry, "It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." Granted, we know Harry will not succumb to anger and evil. But we never stop feeling that he could. (Interestingly, although Rowling is a member...
...handwritten letters into their parents' e-mail In boxes. Angela Williams, of San Angelo, Texas, says she relishes the "instant gratification" of getting e-letters from her son Harvey, 13. Hundreds of camps also post video, newsletters and as many as 500 photos online each day for Mom and Dad to peruse--or buy. The technology, pioneered by a Connecticut-based company called eCamp, is so popular that many camps have had to hire staff solely to take and upload pictures...
...Tokyo-based think tank. Now they're viewed as slackers, unproductive dropouts in a society that increasingly needs youthful economic vitality. Particular wrath is reserved for the "parasite singles"?freeters who maintain a high standard of living despite low pay (or zero pay) by moving in with mom and dad...