My Beautiful Daughter

This is the most beautiful woman in the world: my daughter, Jess. She once selected "Devon" as her badge name at a sci fi convention and I told her I was just sure she had written D-E-V-O-L. I was able to perpetrate this hoax for several months. Now she signs her notes to me as "Devol." I love her more than anyone in the whole wide world.

Every parent hopes their child will be better than they are. She is a better artist than I most certainly. She conceived and illustrated a storybook in the eighth grade which I will be envious of forever. Damn. She could have waited till she was at least forty.