Science Fair

My son brought home some first-place West Elementary science fair hardware this week for his cutting-edge experiment regarding the effects of different fat sources (butter, margarine, Crisco) in peanut butter cookie baking. You'll read about it next month in Popular Science, no doubt.

My oldest daughter, on the other hand, who has a perpetual black cloud over her science fair efforts, suffered yet another lab disaster. Though she intended to study something else, she discovered that mice eat mice. "Oh, Dad! Come here! Dad! Oh, I think I'm going to be sick!" Disturbingly Willardian, the whole thing.