like the little plastic toys that would emerge all dusty with crumbs from the bottom of the cereal box.

what's that in my gift package?

oo, a little religion!

let's go try it out in the bathtub, see if it blows bubbles.

the hindus have it down, by the time a kid is ten he/she has dressed and fed the little household deitiy-dolls hundreds of times.

mama, ganesh smiled at me!

well honey,, he likes that trunkwarmer you knitted him for winter, you can be sure he's out removing obstacles from your path right now!

it'd be nice if jesus would save us from christmas...

damn, i swore to try and be more positive about the big chill this year,  it's only mid-autumn, summer still fresh in my mind.

shop early!!

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty