A Family Business

Will is following in my footsteps as a wallpaper history reconstructionist. He is starting small. I found him in the backyard methodically and painstakingly pulling off strips of paper from the cover of Where the wild things are. I wonder if I could teach him to strip wallpaper from the walls. No, I don’t dare. It’s enough that I have the vowels written in permanent marker on my rocking chair. I shudder to think of how he would decorate the walls!