Slowly We Adjust, But Only If We

[e]very Time You Think The Entertainment Moguls Have Hit Rock Bottom, They Reach For The Jackhammer And Rat-a-tat-tat A Little Deeper.

We Want Our Children To Fit In And To Stand Out. We Rarely Address The Conflict Between These Goals.

Everyone Who Deals With Teens Seems To Agree That The Most Important And Toughest Job Is Staying In Connection And Conversation ... Not Delivering A Lecture But Saying What We Think.

We Continually Want To Unmask Our Heroes As If There Were More To Be Learned From Their Nakedness Than From Their Choice Of Clothing.

We May Never Know Why Joe Ellis Fabricated A Heroic Past. But We Know That The Life He Embellished Has Deeply Diminished The Life He'd Earned.