Item the first: The Albertson's at Wm. Cannon and Westgate gets my vote for "Place Most Likely To Encounter A Masturbating Fellow Shopper".
Item the second: I must be homesick for Chicago because I was a little too happy to find
MAURICE LENELL PINWHEELS here yesterday. They are stale and flavorless and I love them.
Item the third: The older charge (who recently turned 3) had another reading breakthrough this week and I was so proud of him, I cried. I don't care whether you like kids or not, watching them "get" something for the first time is nothing short of miraculous.
Item the fourth: HARRIET sent me an even better Richard Scarry link: THE GROWN-UP WORLD OF RICHARD SCARRY. Click and enjoy, won't you?
Item the fifth: Among my least favorite children's book series is the Berenstain Bears books, which are so unrelentingly preachy and unrealistic about how kids experience the world that I was sure the authors didn't have kids. I WAS WRONG.
Item the seventh: What's the surest sign of someone with nothing to say? Lotsa links.