Party Favors

With a few weeks until our son's birthday party, we're considering favors. Do we go for the old standards like bubbles, superballs and candy? Kick it up a notch with Legos? What about that perennial favorite, crucifixes? No, it's been done.

Then we settle on it: Bathrobes, towels and umbrellas purloined from fancy hotels by the birthday boy's grandfather. Kids love 'em.

"Not that there's anything wrong with it."

I ask the fellow in Barnes and Noble where I can find books about the sacred goddess or divine feminine. He takes me to women's studies, where the selection is either books on feminism or lesbianism. Our three year old daughter proceeds to pull books on the latter off the shelves saying "here's a good one for you mommy." All I could do was laugh, and decline her insistence that I buy Cross Dress for Success.