they’re baaack! bittersweet collegiate homecomings
The New York Times Headlines email letter came this morning
with 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,” by
Vincent M. Mallozzi, Dec. 17, 2005). It’s a topic that has been addressed
by 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 Scent
our two loudest
on vacation
in the same week
last sandwich
from the loaf
the two ends
3 P.M.
mom’s shovelling wakes
the cranky collegiate
update: See Paul David Mena’s treatment
of 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’s
only having fun. For example, see his response to little Virginia Hazard’s
question on the existence of Adverse Selection.” He’s brutally frank,
making analogies to Santa Claus. Now I’m wondering what he’s going
to say when Virginia’s brother Moral Hazard writes in wondering whether
Cherry Picking really happens in the insurance industry. Stay tuned.
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