Here is the best-kept secret about the college school year. It is about 15 minutes long. No sooner do kids return to college from spring break than they are ready to move back home for the summer.

Now you are both teenagers, looking at colleges, going to college, and discussing how you plan to decorate your first apartment. I hope I’ve done a good job preparing you for life alone, but I know ...

I’m trying to remember how we marked the occasion of my high school graduation, and I can’t. Maybe it’s because there wasn’t a big, overblown celebration, but more realistically, it was over 30 years ...