Robert Fulghum remembers the time when his seven-year-old daughter Molly enjoyed packing lunches for herself, her brothers, and her father. Each bag got a share of sandwiches, apples, milk money, and sometimes a note or a treat. One morning Molly handed her father two bags as he was about to leave for the office. One was a regular lunch sack, the other one was sealed with duct tape, staples and paper clips. He asked his daughter, "Why two bags?" "Just some stuff ” take it with you," she said. He stuffed both sacks into his briefcase, kissed his daughter good-bye and left.

While he was eating lunch he opened the second bag. The contents of the bag proved interesting. He found, "two hair ribbons, three small stones, a plastic dinosaur, a pencil stub, a tiny seashell, two animal crackers, a …