Learning As I Go: Skating through life

My sons were invited to a birthday party at a skating rink. Immediately, I was taken back to middle school, back when rollerblades were the best thing ever. My brother could rollerblade. So could all my friends. But I never quite mastered rollerblading. As I watched the skill levels of the skaters at the birthday party, I remembered how good my friends were. They were the ones who got in trouble with the police for skating down handrails and leaping over trashcans at fast speeds downtown. I t