Baby Steps

a thing of beauty... and beasts

I am, as usual, watching my three-year-old granddaughter’s shenanigans from my spot on her living room floor, gazing out from the iPad. (I’m in the US and M lives in Japan with her parents, my son and daughter-in-law.)

“Let’s play princess and the prince who comes to save her from the bad guys,” she tells her father. She is wearing a black turtleneck, a …