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who lives in the kitchen cave?

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2010.09.09

As I took Kenny into the kitchen to pick up his two toothbrushes this morning, he pointed to the space between the washer-dryer unit and the storage room and said, "Scary" because it was dark.

There's an "ogre" who sometimes scares Kenny—usually the icemaker, washer-dryer, anything that makes noise in the night. Mari pretends that it's coming to get Kenny when he refuses to cooperate (usually with having his teeth cleaned). I play the ogre, stomping about in the kitchen and making noise.

Thinking of the "ogre", I asked Kenny, "Who lives here?"

He looked at the washer-dryer and said, "Mari-chan."

rand()m quote

Theory without practice is pointless, practice without theory is mindless.

—(often attributed to Vladimir Lenin)