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Slice of Lucy: What Does It Mean To Be Late?

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What Does It Mean To Be Late?  March 2, 2026 Lucy Yeager What does it mean to be late?  It might mean the plane taxis to the runway without you. Or you get an annoying fee added to your credit card bill.  Or you might be delivering a baby in about nine months! This morning, it meant another exasperated car ride to school, deafening, tense silence blooming between my teenager and me.  My son is a night owl, sleeps through anything, and is a sloth in the morning. During middle school, he would ride with me for our taxing five-minute commute, arriving nonplussed because my start of day was earlier than his. He slow-rolled into school like he had all of the time in the world while I slouched self-consciously into the faculty meeting.  Fast forward to this year, my son has to catch the shuttle from my school to his before my start time. All of a sudden, he really cares about being on time. He might not spring out of bed until 7:35 a.m., but he is wheedling about it...
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Slice of Lucy: Learning Piano

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  Learning Piano March 1, 2026 Lucy Yeager This is my first post...ever. I'm 55 years old, and I kind of wonder why anyone would want to read something I've written about something I'm doing. That said, I can write my story even if no one wants to read it, right? I have thirty minutes until my piano lesson, so here goes! When I was a little girl, I loved to dance. My family somehow scraped together the money for lessons, and I invested myself wholeheartedly in ballet and Russian folk dancing for a decade. Due to time and financial constraints, each kid in my family basically got to do one extra-curricular, and d ancing was my thing. Dance gave me a sense of community and joy;  in fact, I still take a dance class each week.   However, thirty years later, when I was awaiting my son's birth and contemplating all of the hopes and dreams I had for his life, I promised him (and me) that he would get to study music at a young age. I knew it would be easier to learn then and wo...
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