Still your fluttering hearts, dears, I'm not surrendering the column. I'm just counting the minutes until I wake up my boy, wish him a happy birthday, and triple my prayers forevermore. Fifteen years ago today, the little darling was born, changing my life in ways I had never imagined possible. For one thing, he accomplished what parents, teachers and other adults in my life theretofore had been unable to. He made me a conservative.
Most mothers say the birth of their children awakens their heart.
My heart was already in overdrive such that no stray beast, human or otherwise, crossed my path unnoticed. I was an emotional reed, swaying in the breezes of sensitivity. To think, I coulda been president. The birth of my child awakened, instead, my brain. Suddenly, I was a logical, reasonable, thinking being.