And so peace was made. This is how we do it in Lake Wobegon, you see. This goes against psychology, which tells you that you should talk through these things. But we believe that if you talk through your problems you find new ones. You dig the hole deeper and you open up a whole fresh can of worms and so the way we solve problems is just to look at them and deny that they ever existed, you see. This is how you do it in Lake Wobegon.

--Garrison Keillor, A Prairie Home Companion

WITH TIRED EYES, TIRED MINDS, TIRED SOULS

Yesterday was long and "important."

So to celebrate when it was all over, I reneged on every plan I had made and slept for twelve hours to make the headache go away.

My parents are at a wedding, my sister and her boyfriend are also gone--who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household?