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...pass Ma Yates, now relegated to my rearview mirror. Goodbye Granny...
...driving down the road, minding your own business, when it suddenly occurs to you that you've forgotten to buckle your seat belt. And then, just as you reach down to fasten the strap, you see flashing red and blue lights in your rearview mirror...
Many small rituals in my daily life mirror what I experienced as a child. I tell my sons to put only what they're going to eat on their plates, and I still pick at their discarded chicken bones. When they want comfort food, I cook them rice. (Shortly after going to college, my older son called to announce happily that the girls next door had a rice cooker.) When my younger son boasted that he'd told his chemistry teacher to stop checking her e-mail during class, I made him go back the next day with a gift...
...knowing all this still doesn’t answer the original question: is 21 as good as it gets? Reaching for the aspirin in the bathroom cabinet on Friday afternoon, I caught a glimpse of my face in the mirror and—for just a moment—wondered how many times a week I should be exfoliating. For such a newly-christened adult, however, the distance between 21 and 30 seems as endless as ever. I can wait at least another year...
...have in common is that the victims did nothing to justify the use of deadly force. Their real crime seems to have been being black in the presence of a cop. That's why I, like many African-American parents, taught my three sons survival tactics that are the mirror image of the racial profiling used by the police. In our version, every white cop is to be considered dangerous and treated accordingly. In cities like New York and Chicago, some blacks are so scared of cops that they hold classes to teach their kids how not to provoke them...