Wide Awake
In what I hope will prove to be a wise parenting move, Joe and I took our kids to the market – the stock market, that is. We gave each $100 to invest in the stock of their choice. The hope is this will be a financial lesson about the workings and benefits of long-term investing. The fear is this will be a lesson in the harsh realities of an economic downturn.
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Full Circle
She was, for that long night of our lives, in the almost-summer of 1963, the most beautiful girl I had ever touched. And I was so proud and she was so happy. I bought her flowers at Stein’s. She wore them on her wrist, a wristlet, because there was no place to pin them on her chest without drawing blood. ......
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Life Notes
I am watching a tall man with broad shoulders as he leans down to hold the back of a little girl’s bicycle – a two-wheeler, to be precise. She is terrified. He is steady and sure. Suddenly, she gets it. Suddenly, she lets him let go of the back of that bicycle and she sails off into the wind with a look on her face that’s difficult to describe.............
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