Monday, February 18
bad fortune
Mike and I just had lunch at a Chinese restaurant, receiving our obligatory fortune cookies at the close of the meal. Has anyone noticed besides me that no one knows how to write a fortune cookie anymore? Today we opened "Face facts with dignity" and "Even a small gift could mean so much to someone today."
Those aren't fortune cookies. Those are admonition cookies. I've already eaten plenty of those in my life.

In retrospect, perhaps those, too, were admonition cookies--so far, so good.