Katie the Prefect Revisited

I cannot believe it has been five years -- FIVE YEARS -- since I wrote "Katie the Prefect." I was taking my daughter Elizabeth to school, as usual, and as she walked out into the rain, it occurred to me in a new way that she is 14 years old now. She's a few months away from high school. She rebels, and she respects. She's funny. And she's gloomy. One mi…