Tag: bath

  • in the bathtub

    Gus Was A Friendly Ghost
    “What’s a haunted house?”

    My daughter is four years old and, a few days before Halloween, she’s decided to start asking questions.

    I wring out the washcloth, buying time. We don’t talk about these kinds of things around her. She has a couple of picture books, but…

    “What honey?”

    “What’s a haunted house?”

    “Well . . . that’s a house where ghosts live.”

    For a minute I think I might have dodged the real question.

    Nope…

    “And what’s a ghost?”

    “Well…”

    That’s not so easy to answer.

  • bath time

    “Will you check the tub in a minute?”

    My wife comes into the room, a little cross. We are getting our daughter ready for bed.

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    “What’s wrong?”

    “There was almost no water in the tub and it was cold.”

    “Really?”

    She repeats this again. Unspoken is the rebuke — or, perhaps, the fear — that something odd has happened.

    It was full, I know. And warm. I checked it myself just a few minutes earlier.