Being a parent you live out all the tiresome cliches in truth:

• The days are long, but the years are short.
• They’re only this age once.
• You wear your heart on your sleeve.

Usually cliches do nothing but make my eyes roll in the back of my head a la Linda Blair, but the one about the heart on your sleeve recently hit me in spades.

As most of you know, we left Chicago for Portland this summer. And since we didn’t know many folks … Read more ...