Uni-brow

As if it isn't an injustice alone that babies are forced out of the muffled comfort and security of the womb and into the cold, hard-edged world with its bright lights and loud colors, family members who don't respect your personal space, and hairy monsters that pass through your line of sight from time to time leaving you confused and unsettled (of course here we refer to the family dog) . . . Soon after these tortured little souls acquire fun things like acne, cradle cap, and hair loss such that they take on the appearance of highly reactive middle-aged men. Given all this, I'm not quite sure what God was thinking when he decided that, in addition, he would remove little B's left eyebrow, too--not the right one, mind you, just the left. Was this a sick little joke or an oversight of some kind? It would seem SOMEone got a little too carried away with the eraser.

Fortunately my little guy will have no memory of this dark, cruel period in his early life. And his hair is light enough that the eyebrow gaff is easy to miss in most photos. In fact here he seems blissfully unaware.