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Young Mad Scientist Alphabet Blocks:  because creating an evil genius (or at least a well-paid technonerd) starts young.

When my mom asked that I pick out a cool watch for my stepdad’s Father’s Day gift, she probably didn’t have this acid green G-Shock Databank Watch in mind.  (Hey, the man likes calculator watches, and I just want to make him happy.)

An old friend of mine is marrying next weekend, and I’m feeling melancholy.  Not for her, certainly, because she’s happy and I’m happy she’s happy; but for the passage of time, for the fact that I used to run through her backyard sprinklers and drive her to school after her sister moved away, and the vertiginous sensation that we are now the mothers and not the daughters playing outside.

Then I remembered this ring, so bright and witty and honest in its transparency, consecrating you as both seventeen and thirty, both ages fused on one finger.  I wanted to e-mail it to her, to shout “Wear this instead!,” but I realized that she might prefer diamonds.  It’s just as well.