My hard-working slacker grandson graduates HS Sunday. He turned off his alarm and went back to sleep this morning, and would have missed a job interview at Loews had my son not noticed. He wants to become an F1 mechanic.

Peggy Noonan, Becoming Who You Are Ain’t for Sissies, was a balm for me.

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