He'll remember it all his life! That is a lovely routine.

Yep. I believe in quantity. A kid might well share a story of being bullied when you can't stare right into her eyes. Driving or doing housework provide such opportunities.

Nope. I spend a lot of time with 17-18 year-olds. They are very attached to their parents. I don't think the teen years are as fraught as media tells us.

The best conversations our daughter had with us took place in cars. Kids are apt to reveal a lot of what they feel and care about when parental eyes are trained on the road and not on the kid.

Oh that I could. You are in a similar situation to ours. Money keeps us here. It's so cheap to live in most parts of this state. Well, we do have the very best corn!!!

Go. Please. Save yourselves. If you don't, one day you will be over 50, like me, and really really sorry you stayed. But too old to leave until retirement— 13 years away.

My experience in 30 years of living here is that many Hoosiers are intolerant, incurious ignoramuses. A lot of the best ones leave. Then, as is the case with my husband and me, businesses have to lure educated people here with money. So, here we are. Every single friend I have is not a Hoosier.

It's a pit. Just a ghastly, humorless pit of no culture and no kindness. My husband and I are stuck here because of money—he makes way too much for us to leave, and we are old.

Yes!!! Jez needs a cystic acne story!

Yes. I am sorry. And people without cystic acne have no idea how painful it is.

As a fellow cystic acne sufferer I do have some hope to offer: After 40 it got so much better! I'm in my early 50s and haven't had a cyst in over 10 years. And I really suffered, for decades!

This is my final word, because I don't think I can convince you: There are hundreds of universities, if not thousands, where the total cost of four years of college is the equivalent of a used car. That is, by any estimation, a bargain.

You are trying to convince me of something I already agree with you on.

I don't disagree. But many four-year degrees in the US will cost about $24,000. That's the price of a not-too-fancy car.

The overwhelming majority of US universities cost much, much less than NYU.

That's almost as much as my husband and I spent on all four years for our daughter, who went in-state to a Big 10 university. And that includes study abroad and us pretty much never saying no to any request from her.

So Chicago is filled with gawking yahoos? The metro area has nearly 10 million people. Oprah's been walking around for years.

I'm impressed. That's accurate.

Northern Indiana is a bastion of clear thinking and common sense compared to Southern Indiana (except Bloomington).

Well, Mitch Daniels sold the toll road to a foreign company they eventually went bankrupt. He also forced us to go on Daylight Savings Time.