“Why couldn’t she understand my agony?”  was the puzzlement of the five-year-old Cynthia trying to explain that I had eaten my veggies and pascetti (translation: spaghetti), and was full from dinner.  “But MAAaaaooom, my dessert …

Some cultures come with an expiration date.  Sometimes intentional, more often not, these movements are never meant to last.  One of the starkest examples is the formation and demise of cults.  It usually starts