From her stoop in the center of a sophisticated city, my niece Erin has carved out a delightful little corner of Mayberry. She and her neighborhood gang enjoy a living-room-forts, frontyard-warter-balloon-fight, Saturday-sleepover, come-home-when-the-streetlights-turn-on kind of childhood, while all around them Chicago hums. They each have the necessary kind of scheduled activities that keep their parents [...]
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We nearly caught a Leprechaun
Last night we trapped a leprechaun who sneaked inside our door We knew we'd snagged the elfin thief when we heard his squeaky roar. I tip toed downstairs carefully, prepared to call my niece Who'd showed me how to snare a sprite; she rigged it piece by piece. "We've got him now," I thought I'd [...]