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Oct 30

Last weekend I took these guys to the zoo and today we’re going to attack a corn maze. It makes a nice break from working on the intricate moving parts of Honors Algebra or reading your 40 pages per night of Jane Austen.These are 6 of 8 top students who, through the National Program for a Better Chance , left their warm homes and familiar neighborhoods to attend high school in our town. ABC places kids in over 300 public and private schools throughout the country and we have such a program, supported by 80 volunteers, by countless donations from the community and, this year, by my own small contribution as Mistress of Enrichment, Community Service and Last Minute Rides to the Y.

Most weekends the scholars are busy studying for SATs and playing sports and writing papers but this weekend we decided to drive to my family’s summer place, together with Winchester ABC’s President Jennifer Regentz and her hubby Mike who between them seem to be doing all of the the cooking (yay!)

And today we're doing something much more arduous than interacting with jaguars. They're still sleeping at the moment – something about that midnight screening of "Fight Club" I found them enthralled in when I wandered out to the kitchen to fetch a glass of water – but soon we will all get marched into a maze so puzzling it makes old Honors Algie III look easy: the famous Corn Maze at Moulton Farms. My kids and I did it last fall and if it weren't for our son Mike with his memory like God’s own memory we'd still in there now. I'll report back in a few days if we manage to get out that quickly. And oh yeah: Ray in his hoodie might be trying to look like some tough guy in the picture above but he's a big softie really, as you can see here with his arm around Class of '14-er Hazees.