It is time to choose next year’s classes for my three middle- and high-schoolers. Going through this process this year made me realize how much the upheaval of the last year has actually benefited me as a parent–strengthened and sensitized me, reshaped and reordered my priorities. I was a straight-A student, and as such, parenthood…
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Rethinking Priorities
What I Learned About High School After Twenty Years
It was quite a weekend. On Saturday I found out two of my articles had won awards, the scales tipped at pre-pregnancy weight, and we went to my twenty-year high school reunion. I’ve been anticipating this event ever since Christian’s reunion last fall. And several years before that, actually. But as the time grew close,…
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Funny how these things snowball… A couple of months ago we were at the history museum in Forest Park when I heard, “Kate?” I turned around and who should I see but one of my college friends, with whom I’d completely lost contact. We exchanged email addresses and then she passed mine on to my…
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Kathleen M. Basi 