Wonder Girl

After a long, hard summer, Annie starts school tomorrow. It will be the first day of her senior year, and it's just like they say - kids grow up so fast! One moment she's a tiny little baby some nurse hands to me at the hospital, so I can carry her swaddled form down the hall for cleanup and first weigh-in. Then, in the blink of an eye, she is seventeen, fiercely intelligent, principled beyond her years, and working three jobs to sock it away for the college expenses that loom just ahead.

Good luck, Annie. I hope you have a wonderful last year of high school.