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Family Traditions vs. Rites of Passage: Why Grandkids Need Both
Gaye and I sailed into the Arctic this summer, and somewhere off Iceland the cruise director announced that anyone who wanted to become a blue nose should come to the deck. Neither of us had any idea what that meant, so of course we went.
The tradition goes back to the Nordic sailors. The first time you cross into the Arctic Ocean, they dump ice cold water over your head and paint your nose blue. I watched a deck full of grown adults line up for it like giddy children, and half those men would have punched anyone who tried it under any other circumstance.
It got me thinking about something I…
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