The Friday Redirect, Because I Noticed It Was Friday

This is me at Dekalb School of Fine Arts yesterday, where I am apparently teaching some rather gifted young writers how to feel up an invisible mermaid. (Or perhaps how to kindly adjust her seashells, as based on my hand position, her top has gone a bit wonky.)

Charity, I told the kids, begins in the ocean.

They recreated a scene in A GROWN UP KIND OF PRETTY, turning the library into the CALVARY HIGH back to school luau. HOW COOL IS THAT. AND! Look, on the table, they made Mosey's Tree House. ...