My column about middle school friendships hit home with many readers. Here are two responses. Response 1: I read your column on Thursday with a great deal of interest and a little bit of flashback. I鈥檓 in my early 40s and a parent of two elementary school girls. When I read the question from ...
Q. Where are all my school friends? Summer is moving along quickly, and I feel abandoned. I try to connect but they ghost me. I don鈥檛 know what to do. I don鈥檛 think I did anything wrong, although I do know my friends are known to exclude other girls. I鈥檝e seen that happen. I just didn鈥檛 ...
Like many of you, I have spent large chunks of life chasing shiny things. In that regard, I have been distracted by a desire to appear successful by having the trappings of 鈥渟uccess.鈥� You know, the things that say, 鈥淚 made it. Applause, please.鈥� It started when I was a tween. ...
Robb Rhodes has performed an estimable public service: He has put on the table a plan for the Penn State-Fayette campus now slated for the ash heap. Rhodes, the Fayette County controller, wants to convert the campus into a four-year "senior military college," along the lines of Norwich ...
They built a golf course all around my grandparents' house. The 18th fairway nearly cut through their backyard, and until we put wire grates over the windows, flying glass and golf balls were a common threat. Dad attempted to play golf a few times. As a little kid, he had fallen off a horse. ...
Q. I just finished a week at a Leadership camp. One of the things I enjoyed the most was Open Talk time. The camp counselor posed a question, and we all responded. It鈥檚 the kind of thing you always do. I鈥檇 love to hear your responses to two of my favorite ones. First, if you could have one ...
