Anna Quindlen: A Cubicle Is Not a Home
A Cubicle Is Not a Home
By Anna Quindlen
NewsweekMay 29, 2006
Creeping codgerism is an inevitable effect of getting older, a variation of memory loss. When I complain that my daughter's skirt looks more like a belt, or that my sons keep vampire hours, those are the churlish carpings of a woman years removed from the days when her own dresses were sky-high and her idea of a good time was sleeping until noon. "Turn down that music," I have been known to yell, and my only saving grace is that I hear the words through a filmy curtain of generational deja vu.