It Was the Last Good Race But I Didn’t Know it at the Time

When your children stop doing a sport or an activity that your family has been part of for a long time, it’s a milestone. We’ve been on a swim team for eight years and now my kids are ready to move on (even if I’m not). Being on that team is what made the amorphous collection of pre-planned subdivisions where we live feel like a community. It was also something that we did together – all the kids on the same team and the parents serving as volunteers. It was a shared experience.

At our last...