No Matter What

As kids, our parents established a few simple rules that we would all follow, no matter the circumstances. One of them was that we’d always have dinner together in the evening, typically around 6pm.

In almost two decades, they never broke that rule. We had dinner on 9/11 and when mom was at the hospital. It’s not always easy.

There’s a nice thing that happens when you have such a golden rule: it has ripple effects. Since we had dinner together every evening, we would always have time to tal...