I am finally settling into summer. (If one more person says it is almost over, I’m going to lose it.) This summer, I am making time to read. My first book of the season is Breaking Night, by Elizabeth Murray. It is a memoir about a woman who makes it through a horrific childhood, essentially raising herself while her parents are getting high, ends up homeless, and then somehow through hope and will, ends up at Harvard. I am just getting to the hopeful part, but even with abou

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It is holiday break time! The airports will be crawling with little kids, escorted by frazzled parents looking forward to some family time away from the pressures of home. Vacations are wonderful, but traveling with small children can be stressful. Even under the best circumstances, flying with babies and toddlers is difficult. When things go wrong, it can be torture. A few years ago, we took a family vacation to Turks and Caicos. My twins were about 15 months old. The girls