Jun 30 2009
Damage Report
- The cookie jar is chipped.
- The toilet seat is cracked clean through. I suspected the involvement of circus animals, such as elephants – a charge the smallest fry vehemently denied.
- There are footprints on the walls.
- A sore throat lozenge, placed on the white bureau for safe-keeping, has stained the surface pink.
- Kernels of buttered popcorn littered the bottom of my purse, evidentally deposited during the Movie Theatre Fiasco a few days ago.
- Butterfly-patterned panties mysteriously appeared in the laundry hamper.
- Theme music from Avatar: The Last Airbender is stuck in my head.
- My heart aches from child-deprivation.






I love when you write these ones.
James
Thank you, James. But I don’t understand – you like when I write about children, or about destruction/chaos?