I just posted on top- it did happen to my sister, and it was a pretty old cemetery.

That happened to my little sister once. My parents used to go out into cemeteries and make moldings of interesting headstones. One day we heard a scream and had to run around a while, following the sound, until we could find her. The family legend is that my father threw the headstone off of her before carrying her…

When I first read the Times article, I immediately thought of my mom who spent the bulk of my formative years getting her BA and then MA. I have countless memories and photographic evidence of her with her head in a book, during my practices, performance, and even my birthday, and all the while wearing her enormous…

No, it looks like what a parent re-gifts to the kindergarten teacher.

It can happen. I have two sons- a tween and teen. Take it as another aspect of your life changing with kids—You’ll always have to be (lovingly) in their face regarding respect and decency for everyone. It’s the ethical equivalent of toilet training, but it will go on well into adulthood. It also helped that before…