Some of you may recall this FrontBurner essay written by Alex Schultz about refereeing kids’ basketball games in Plano. Alex was 17 when he wrote that. Alex went off to USC this year, and his mother, Melissa, wrote an essay on the NYT‘s Motherlode blog about how hard it was to drop off her baby in that faraway land. Recommended reading.
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