At the beginning of the school year, Mungo wore a tutu at lunch; not long after that, he asked me how to cope with the six girls who had let him know that they wanted him to ask them out. Of course he is also kind and funny and interesting, but I think his rockin' the gender presentation had something to do with it.

Have you seen Whole New Thing? It's about a homeschooled kid who gets sent to public school because his mother can't make him learn math. I watched it with Nixie this winter break. We see the kid finishing his first novel. Nixie says, "I like him." I say, "He's a future Reedie, isn't he?"