Deborah Copaken and Randy Polumbo: The ABCs Of Adulthood

Deborah Copaken, writer and photographer, worked with artist Randy Polumbo to create a guidebook for her off-to-college kids. It’s the book Copaken wished had been available when she was a college freshman.

When my kids left for college I had the crushing feeling that there had not been enough time. There was a long list of things I still wanted to see and do with them but the biggest miss, the one that left a lump in my throat, was what I still wanted to say to them.

It was the words, the c...