Life Lessons

It's long been one of my favorite phrases along with the rolodex of Life. Life Lessons are wonderful and one of my consistent life lessons is that you charge your phone the night before and never go out without money. My mother used to call it mad money and it was a dime to make a phone call. 50 years of inflation later, it should be $20. So yesterday not only did Kate get herself To school but she got herself home from school and was knocking around an empty house. She was a latchkey kid for the afternoon and I had originally suggested that she come up to the Museum by herself. Later in the afternoon after alot of doing nothing I think, she called to say that she changed her mind and she would come up to the Museum solo. It's a long trip with a couple of changes but nothing daunted Kate thought she would take the subway. Shiver my timbers...ugh. But ok. She had a metro card she said. Telephone call from the subway station with a really disappointed daughter, "There is no money on the Metro Card but I really want to come!Oh, no I didn't bring any money so I can't buy a new Metro Card.

The Life Lesson? never go out of the house without money.