MARIAH'S ANGEL

Collage by Mariah, age 6

One of the joys of life--a bitterly cold winter afternoon and hot chocolate and covering yourself and your granddaughter with glue and crayons and paints and papers and ribbons and creating art and having serious conversations about war and "Principal" Bush and Anthony chasing her every day on the playground so that she has to hide behind another bush (yes, it appears the boy/girl thing does begin that early these days) and listening to Santana and a little dancing now and then and it hardly gets any better than this...

well, perhaps a few things are better...I'm not that old...

- mimi