Kate Brash as Divorced Midget

Spontaneously-and without the least rehearsal-

one of our two six-year-old daughters

indicated she would be attending the Unitarian

Pot Luck Supper not as a member of the family

but as a divorced midget. Small, she said,

female and unmarried . . . letting the logic

of it fill the car's interior like

a delicious scent. So Kate, fed

up with the antagonistic bunch

of us, expresses protest, having

earlier that afternoon observed

her parents throwing insults and

utensils not exactly at each other but

close enough to spread alarm.