Well, I did it.  My daughter and I bought bus tickets and I got onto a city bus and tried to get to the neighboring city where her community college classes will be starting up soon.

On the good side - ( I rode a bus! )

I must confess that I have an irrational fear of riding city buses, which makes me a terrible hypocrite when I blithely tell my kids that they can get where they need to go because we're right near a bus stop and "it's not that complicated ( Read more... )

One of the things I swore I would never do to my kids when I had a family was to force them to consume something that they really didn't want to consume (beyond the "one bite so you know if you actually like it or not" level). This is in large part because when I was in grade school and didn't like tomatoes, my father decided that I would not only ( Read more... )