20 teeth 6 letters

I've been coming up to make sure Sima's tooth is still there when he goes to bed: two days ago I tickled him, yesterday I convinced him to growl at me like a lion.

yesterday got six pieces of mail: one asking for money, one returning my old US passport, one postcard, and three letters. My day was made.

twentysomethings

Boston: Yulka and her boyfriend. We ate brunch at Church, and then
drank mimosas on the esplanade, watching the rollerbladers, dogs, their walkers, and bikers pass. Laughed at being twentysomethings in the middle of a summer day.

Tooth Fairy

Sima has a loose tooth. He told me not to tell Mama when it falls out - so that he could check if the tooth-fairy is real.
When I told Mama (in front of him) that he has a loose tooth he squinted at me and smiled distrustingly. The main reason he believes in the tooth-fairy (as he told me a few months ago) is that he always gets a golden dollar coin under his pillow "and nobody has that many dollar coins". Similarly, he still believes in Father Frost (Ded' Moroz) because he got a watch from him last New Years, and Mama and Papa knew that he already had a watch.

I watched the Germany-Argentina game, grow more cynical than ever when I read the news, and met up with Adrienne in Central Square when she visited from Vermont.

the rain

I want to go outside because the downpour smells warm through my window. The trees are relishing the wind and the lightning is tearing the thunder asunder.


Went to Baxter State Park with my family for the fourth of July weekend but the tornado made us too miserable to stay a third night. We canoed in the rain and walked quickly in a vain attempt to escape the gnats and mosquitoes (they do so relish our blood).

The prodigal daughter has returned to write again.

movies: Cabare (1972, USA), Blade Runner (1982, USA), F for Fake (1973, France, in English), Magnolia (1999, USA).