At the end of Impromptus today, I tell a cute kid story — I figure one of those every couple of months or something isn’t so bad. (The star of this story is my nephew, age eight.) Want to share just one story from a reader with you. Hope you find it worth it:

You have reminded me of something my four-year-old daughter — now 21 — dropped on me as she walked by and I was reading the evening paper. [Wow, remember when there were evening papers?] She said, “Oh, Father, there must be more than this provincial life!”
I was dumbfounded. I later learned that this line was from a movie, Beauty and the Beast. My daughter still uses the line whenever she’s looking for permission — read: help with financing — for her latest exotic study or travel abroad. And pretty successfully too — she’s now in Buenos Aires.