You Go Girl!

My daughter has finished college. She graduated magna cum laude and I couldn't be more proud. Since she was our youngest, we now truly face the empty nest. For a while, she's moved back in with us, but I know that is very temporary. If my wife had her way, it would be permanent, but that wouldn't be very much fun for my daughter. She's very independent, and I know she'll not be wanting to hang around us for too much longer. That's as it should be.

Of our three children, she is most passionate thinker. She (a liberal at this point in her life) and I (pretty conservative by now) have some interesting discussions. We disagree on much of the way the world works, but I have the advantage of knowing, while she only has the advantage of "thinking". I hope it stays that way for a while. Maybe she'll make a difference--you know--the bumblebee syndrome (he doesn't know he can't fly, so he does it anyway).

I hope she'll continue to listen to me--then continue to make up her own mind.