The Graduates

College at the start and at the end; Time flies when you are having fun; The skies of New Orleans and Poughkeepsie.

Last fall I wrote about Move-in day (and Don Delillo) to which this piece is the corollary.

My latest book, Degas at the Gas Station: Essays, is available at fine bookstores everywhere and all the usual places.

“Few essayists write about their families with the verve and insight that Thomas Beller brings to his stories about his parents, wife, and two c…