Life is not getting any less complicated.

We don't have a handle on the whys very much at all.

Trying to get your head wrapped around what is student achievement and what can I as a board member do about it. Picking the carpet and firing the coach is easy, but what to do about No Child Left Behind? Keeping the potholes fixed is a little bit less esoteric and a little bit less foreign land to walk into.

Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events

Some people go through the heavy stuff. They fight in wars. They're in jail. They start a business and it gets shut down by gangsters. They end up hustling their ass in a foreign country. It's one long list of setbacks and humiliations. But it doesn't touch them, not really. They're having an adventure. It's like: What's next? And then there's other people who are just trying to live quietly, they stay out of trouble, they're maybe ten years old, or fourteen, and one Friday morning at 9:35 something happens to them, something private, something that breaks their heart. Forever.

Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.