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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Oakville, 2010.11.27

The other day as I headed for the bus stop I noticed something odd about the baby carriage that a woman was pushing down the street.

It had two small children in it, one underneath the other.

"Oh," I exclaimed brightly, "two babies." Then I noticed that the lower of the two was actually riding in the under-slung cargo carriage area, not a "proper" spot.

The woman said something apologetic, but the child in the lower position called up a query at the same time and I didn't catch it.

I'll have to keep the cargo-smuggling option in mind if and when we do have a second child ourselves.

rand()m quote

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

—Steven J. Gould