And do you feel scared, I do But I won't stop and falter And if we threw it all away Things can only get better --Howard Jones, "Things Can Only Get Better," 1985. My youngest daughter recently got her driver's license. Since this is the third child to get a license, besides the parents' experiences at the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), you'd think I would be an expert by now on how to navigate the DMV. But the place of which I once said, “All of the ineptitude of the entire world converges at the DMV” is always a challenge, and my trips there are just far enough apart in time that I can never exactly remember what is supposed to happen or what the process is. The first decision is always to figure out which parent will take time off of work to go to the DMV with the child. Since a school principal trumps every other job in the world, I am always the one selected to go to the DMV, even though I am the so-called head of the house. I was also s
by Chris Rainey. This is a blog of my journaling, essays, opinion pieces, religious satire, and creative writing.