My best day in a long time

Or: How unemployment has changed me.

(A picture I took of the U.S. Capitol during our field trip!)

I did something on Monday that I haven’t done in years: I went on a field trip with my younger son.¹

We — me and about 60 5th graders — did a scavenger hunt around Capitol Hill, with stops at the U.S. Capitol, Supreme Court and Library of Congress. We went to the National Gallery of Art where t…