John Boston | When Once Upon a Time I Was 13 …

John Boston | When Once Upon a Time I Was 13 …

My godson’s son’s birthday was last week. Riley turned 13 and those with kids know that years shrink to minutes when nostalgia raises its weepy head. My own daughter, The Indy Pie? She’s 22 and graduating from a snooty upstate New York college days away. I remember dropping her off first day of kindergarten. Driving home? I sobbed like a lonely housewife in front of the 2 o’clock soaps.  The novelist Joseph Heller penned a wonderful novel after …