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>Raising daughters is fun, exhilerating, trying, and stressful. :o) Nothing else beats it! :o) She will bring so much joy and embarrassment over the years. Just wait until the first time she no longer wants to give you a kiss goodbye in public, or the first time she tells you that you have embarrassed
her. :o)
Agree with everything you say here.
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham