I figure I’m allowed one non-Marika post between Marika posts.

As I picked up some curling ribbon at Target t’other day, my attention was attracted by a piping voice repeating, “Happy Hanukkah! Happy Hanukkah!” behind me. Turning, I saw a South Asian boy of perhaps 6 years reading the festive greeting off candles and other items in the Hanukkah display. As his mother hailed him impatiently, and he wended momward, he turned to his little sister and said, with all the assurance of Lucy telling Linus about snow and sparrows, “Only Hawaiian people celebrate Hanukkah.”