Making Lemonade

Please, go ye forth and read Rainbow Girl’s guide on how to victimize yourself before others can victimize you! Or at least, her guide to dealing with websites that give what can only with charity be described as misguided advice.
For women only. Because we all know men are the only perpetrators of violence, [...]

This actually occurred some months ago, perhaps as long ago as late last summer or early fall.
Acorn is playing with some of his pretend food, feeding me bites of “peas” and “chicken,” which I am dutifully “eating” with appropriate yummy-food noises. Suddenly he holds up a plastic cup. “You want some tea?” he [...]

“There are two dogs in a cage in this room.”
My mother tried not to laugh. “Acorn, your preschool does not keep dogs in a cage.”
“Yes, they do!” He seemed not to notice her disbelief, so preoccupied was he with the troubling notion of dogs being kept in a cage. “Weird-looking dogs. [...]