Write On!

There are so many things on my mind today: Tony Blair’s announced departure and his complicated legacy; the proposed R-rating for movies that “glamorize” smoking along with sex and violence (I hope that’s not retroactive); nagging questions about whether Ben really murdered John Locke on “Lost.” Yet here I am obsessing about the letter to the editor I saw in today’s paper from a high school junior. Never mind what it was about. It was a terrific letter: reasoned, thoughtful and extremely well-written. Given what passes for communication these days, it’s nice to know we can still come upon articulate expression from the under-eighteen set. Anyway, it just sort of made my day.