The New York Times Headlines email letter came this morningwith the following Quotation of the Day:“It’s always nice when they come home. And it’s always nice when they leave.”
– PATRICIA GOSS, on having children home from
college for the holidays.(see the accompanying article: “Home for Holidays, Rocking the Nest,” byVincent M. Mallozzi, Dec. 17, 2005). It’s a topic that has been addressedby a few of f/k/a’s Honored Guest Poets:
first night home from college
click of the latch
on her bedroom door
his room empty now …
in the distance, points of the light
on the interstate
boy shooting baskets–
deep snow piled
all around him
home from a date—
my roommate’s underwear
now inside out
lee gurga from Fresh Scentour two loudeston vacationin the same weeklast sandwichfrom the loafthe two ends3 P.M.
mom’s shoveling wakes
the cranky collegianupdate: See Paul David Mena’s treatmentof this theme here (Dec. 19, 2005).
potluck
I’m sure the RiskProf is more than happy to send his students
back to their parents over the Holiday Break. But don’t go thinking he’sonly having fun. For example, see his response to little Virginia Hazard’squestion on the existence of Adverse Selection.” He’s brutally frank,making analogies to Santa Claus. Now I’m wondering what he’s goingto say when Virginia’s brother Moral Hazard writes in wondering whetherCherry Picking really happens in the insurance industry. Stay tuned.
