A Year Later–Hoo and Why

I’ll be honest: I’ve had a really hard time dropping my kid off at school these past few days. I was watching all those little legs running into the building this morning, and it was particularly acute. It’s pajama day, and all the kids were in a variety of candy colored, or merchandise branded flannels, with half of them wearing fuzzy slippers. They all looked brilliantly happy and cute.

The one year anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting is Saturday, and as the day approaches, I’v...