Superman Sam

Sometimes when I want to feel rich, I open the Find My Friends app.
I feel incredibly rich when I see the little dots that light up and show me where all of my beloved family members are. I am so lucky to have so many little dots filling up the map.
This weekend, your 20th birthday, your siblings were flung across three different states. I zoomed out so I could see us all in one screen. Our family, all in those little dots....

Would you have voted in your first presidential election this week? (And perhaps, would you have thought of yourself and others with childhood cancer who have permanent pre-existing conditions as you voted?)
Would we have visited you for Parents' Weekend, and would you have showed us, with pride, your messy dorm room and your fraternity house?...

There's something about turning 18, isn't there? A whole new list of adult things you get to do, places you can go, responsbilities you have. You can sign your own permission slips!
When a person turns 18, they think they're so old. And yet, the older I get, the more achingly young 18 seems to be....

There's a whole culture now around creating a "streak." What's your Wordle streak? How many days in a row have you done the Mini Crossword? Did you close your watch rings all the days this month?
I have a love-hate relationship with these streaks. I really like adding up all those numbers, but I also sometimes defiantly break my streaks so I'm not beholden to them. This week, I broke my Wordle streak but I hit a couple of high personal-high streaks...