The Washington Post, February 4th, 2001
My son was lying on the kitchen floor, crying to beat the band. I was pleased. His overachieving peers had started having tantrums at age 18 months, but Paul had waited until now, when he was 2 1/2. I was always happy to be able to mark a developmental milestone on his calendar. But I was a little offended by what he was crying: "Stop singing! Stop singing!" Tom Jones had started it all. Paul and I had been watching the news and seen a clip of Tom Jones rehearsing for the Mall Millennium celebration. You know how it is after you've heard Tom Jones. So when making dinner a bit later, I grabbed...
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