“No it's not. It's a big hot!” At 2 years old. After being warned that the car seat was a little hot.

“This is our house. And this is America Online.” (While pointing at a map of the North American continent.)

“If all the people in the world were nice could we just get rid of the word mean?”

The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put us in an impossible situation.