The Washington Post, August 19th, 1992
Thirteen. My daughter the teenager. If you think that sentence is scary to read, think about how terrifying it was to write. The terror has been mounting with the tense pacing of a Stephen King novel since I started referring to my daughter the 12-year-old as "my daughter who is about to turn 13." Friends commiserated. Relatives commiserated. Lynn Martin, the secretary of labor, commiserated when I mentioned my daughter during an interview. Martin, the mother of seven in a blended family, shook her head. "You poor baby," she said. "You have a daughter who's going to be 13. The years 13 to 15 a...
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