The Old New Thing

Mom and dad's event-filled first day of school

September 9, 2013 Sep 9, 2013 09/9/13

Raymond Chen

I dreamed that my wife and I had dropped our daughter off at her new school for the first time, and I made a wrong turn and ended up going the wrong way. We got off at an exit for highway I-5, and the on-ramp turned into a two-lane highway hundreds of feet in the sky. To keep people from going too fast, the road rolled back and forth: First ...