Our son graduated from SMU Law School today.  It was a great morning for our family, and an opportunity to catch up with President Bush: Thousands of students and their families packed Moody Coliseum for the ceremony, which marked the 100th anniversary of school’s spring commencement. Bush was both light-hearted and serious during his speech. He was self-deprecating at times about his speaking and painting skills, and he invoked his faith while prodding graduates to participate in the civic life. Saturday’s speech was the first Bush has given since leaving office, but his second at SMU. He first spoke at the university in 1999 while governor of Texas. His presidential center is on the campus. He got a tremendous reception from students and family.  It had the feeling of a campaign rally as the crowd started applauding when he and Mrs. Bush walked up to the platform. The speech had a lot of the Bush that we've grown accustomed to.  He...(Read Full Post)