Blue Skies

Lately Sweet M had been reading American Girl magazine. Their quizzes on "how a good friend acts" or "what to do in a sticky situation" are great for her: social skills stories in a normative package. She likes their drawing contests, too. Recently they had a dress design contest, and this was her submission: "the cloud dress." Floating above it all . . . no feet are even needed . . . with a few fluffy white cumulus humilis across the length of the sky blue shift.

That's how things seem these days: blue skies made more interesting by occasional fair weather clouds.