For many years, children were just short things I saw occasionally in shopping malls. I was a software engineer, cut down at age 23 not by the dot-com crash but by weak wrists. After a long interval where I, like Richard Kimble, toiled at many jobs, I now find myself guiding a classroom of preschoolers: 20 little dynamos between the ages of 3 and 6, each one half-animal, half-angel. My friends say, "You'll be really prepared when you have your own children!" I reply, "How could anyone ever be prepared for that?"
Adam Cooper
(Photos Rebecca D'angelo For The Washington Post)
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Falls Church
Hospitality is my life. I have managed hotels, restaurants, catering companies, trade shows. As a road warrior, I frequented fun destinations 20 weeks of the year. I was offered executive positions at several companies. My wife and I even own a local cafe. On a lark last year I bought a van and placed an ad to haul junk. Clients are desperate to remove their clutter and blissful when it's gone. After a long day my wife eyes me when I arrive home. Grimy. Filthy. Exhausted. She opines, "This is the happiest you have ever been." Yes. Yes, it is.
(Rebecca D'Angelo - For The Washington Post)
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Kyle Clifford
Arlington
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