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I seem to recall my hair doing that when I was a kid.

I’m getting a real George Saunders feeling from this one. Is there a whole Saunders school I don’t know about? Amusing and strange, surreal and bittersweet. Read it for:

Waste
Unsolved Mystery
Dinner
Thoughts While Strolling
Fish
The Pit

Max and Alice show that ice what’s what.

Today, Max described autumn as the time when the trees’ hair falls out. So lovely!

One night it’s castles, the next it’s magic hats.

It’s the little things:

Like Max running past me down the hall, stopping, and then running back to give me a hug.

Or walking into Alice’s school to pick her up and hearing her laughing from the other room.

 

Tonight, as we were putting the kids to bed, Alice decisively left the room, shutting the door. She immediately came back in, saying: “I am the King of Yumminess! No more laughing!” Then she left the room, and repeated several times. Each time, with a different delivery, and instructions for our response, like an actor riffing on lines and a director giving notes to actors.

It got so that she had all of us leaving the room and coming in again with variations on the King of Yumminess. (King, Queen, Prince, etc.) Needless to say, we were all laughing a lot.

It was three years ago my darling daughter came on the scene. My life has never been the same.

It’s getting to that point in Seattle where it’s feeling like anytime we do something it’s the last time we’ll do that thing.

 

I’ll miss the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, that’s for sure!

Ghost pirates never go away and neither shall I!