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(To readers: I originally wrote this a while back. Given it’s that time for graduations again, I thought I’d republish it. Who knows, maybe a graduating student will stumble on it and read it. - John) Someone near and dear to me graduated as an RN today. I proudly attended her graduation. It is called a pinning for nurses, but it still is a graduation ceremony with all the elements...

I thought it might be appropriate to repeat this. Someone near and dear to me graduated as an RN today. I proudly attended her graduation. It is called a pinning for nurses, but it still a graduation ceremony with all the elements expected, including the keynote address. This is the graduation season, and in high schools and colleges across the land there are graduation ceremonies...

I'll admit I'm a proud mama. My daughter graduates college this month. She's one of those kids many people hate. She takes her school seriously, gets great grades, and during her final art show, she sold three of her pieces. Her accomplishments took me back to when I graduated from New Jersey's Bergen Community College in 1987 and the influence my teachers and the respiratory community had on...

My "caboose baby" is graduating from high school tonight. I'm nowhere near ready. I still need to iron his graduation gown, prepare dinner, take a shower, do my hair. But even if all that were done by magic wand...I still wouldn't be ready. I don't think I ever will be. Twenty seven years of daily hands-on mothering is drawing to a close, with the last stop on the train being dropping my...

As young people prepare for high school graduations around the country (my own daughter included) I thought it would be cool (do they say that word anymore?) to come up with a Top Ten List of Baby Boomer Graduation Songs. These are the songs my generation would appreciate as we prepared to enter our new journey into adulthood. See how many you actually remember. Glad All Over:...

I Was Not a Traditional Student by Sondra Crane http://contributor.yahoo.com/user/167651/sondra_c.html My mother had told me years ago, after I had my first child, when I mentioned that I was sorry I did not graduate from college - I remember it as if were yesterday, "the years go by anyway, and if you only take one class a semester you eventually will earn your college degree". I did not...

There was no cap and gown—no pomp and circumstance–just sheer joy and renewed hope. On...