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Today, we accepted the crown and scepter, beginning our reign over the Land of Procrastination. It is a lovely little place, filled with people hard at work at everything but what they should be doing. There is an entire suburb devoted to people who obsessively check their email every thirty seconds. A small village where […]

Our first foray into the wild world of employment taught us the importance of lying. Every day, we’d tell two whoppers, over and over. First we’d declare, looking the customer in the eye, that the pastries we sold weren’t fattening. Then we’d say, yes, of course we’re Danish. The pastries were filled with butter and […]

There was a sense of relief and disappointment the day we discovered the truth about Carolyn Keene. Naturally, the disappointment came from learning she wasn’t a real person. The relief? Well, we’d noticed a certain similarity between The Hardy Boys, The Bobbsey Twins, and Nancy Drew. We didn’t have a clue from voice in those […]