There Were Children in This House: Selected Stories from Thinking AllowedIn 1983, a young newspaper reporter and astronaut in waiting published an essay in the paper in which he both marveled at the vastness of space and imagined with wonder what it would be like to gaze into his soon to be born child's eyes. Thus began "Thinking Allowed," a weekly column that, over the next twenty five years, told the stories of an average family with two kids, a golden retriever and a mammoth station wagon with a drooping headliner. The