Some teachers enter our lives for just a moment; others create bonds for years.  The best, though, leave marks forever.  When I was a high school senior, my biology teacher introduced me to genealogical research with an assignment

When I was little, I used to go next door to my friend Christine’s house first thing in the mornings, on weekends, to ask her to play. Her mom was always pulling fresh orange-icing rolls out of the oven right as I showed up