July 10
There’s no news today. What to do? We decided to do a little urban anthropology which included a quantitative analysis of the automotive vehicles in our neighborhood. Conclusions: In the short distance between our street and Blelizabeth Jangl’s house we counted twenty-three family-friendly Volvos glinting in the sun. Most of the them were classic four-door types, but there were also two-doors and wagons, old and new – and littered with everything from tennis racquets to Pottery Barn catalogs to an Atlas of Narnia. – Kiran