OMG, is that Miss Debbie?!?
Anyone who follows these missives understands that Alison Reed's current and future successes have/will occur largely in spite of her upbringing rather than because of it. I mean, we've tried to shape the little redhead, but we've been helped by a huge swath of humanity that hopefully will remediate the times we fell short. I was reminded of that this weekend when Debbie Beatty - Miss Debbie to anyone associated with Day Nursery - stepped out of her Uber and onto our driveway. She was the lead teacher in Ali and Jenna's two-year-old room at Day Nursery, where they and other lucky little tots spent their days while their parents toiled nearby in state offices. The nursery was on the ground floor of Government Center North, so just across the street from me at the Statehouse in the early days and then downstairs until I left state service at the direct request of a Mitch Daniels henchman. (I'm not bitter.) You learn a lot from two-years-old to three-years-old. Pott