Throwing Stones

I teach my kids that it is never okay to throw rocks at passing cars, but the other day, I picked up a rock to chunk at oncoming traffic.

I live on a dirt road where there isn’t much coming or going, but as I was walking, a little white pickup truck barreled down the hill. There is water on either side of the road. The driver left the blacktop at about seventy miles per hour. What else was I going to do?

I stooped and picked up the largest rock I could find. If I couldn’t get far enough o...