*Graduation

This was my first child yesterday:

M 2003, click to enlarge

And today:

M and friends, grade 6 graduation, soft focus

In April 1999, I'd just come back from Europe to the news that the referral for our first baby was on the way. I had to go to New York for an interview with A&E the day the courier was to deliver the information. I called home every hour. "Did it come yet?" No, A told me. Finally I called for the last time that day, in the airport while waiting for my plane to take me home. "Did...