How I would raised my daughter (Building a better human being)

In her attempts to get gold stars for her decision to nuke my Mormon wife out of my life, Khari made it clear that she thought I would be a bad father. Announcer, please . . . 

How to produce an artistic genius--slide one

 
"Weighing in at six pounds, six ounces, we have the Riverside Shakespeare. Know the first line to that poem, or song, then this is the book for you--it has the indexes. Heavy, too. Raise a daughter hefting this once a month, and you build Supergirl, able to crush bricks."

During my community college years (my 40s), me and another parent of a daughter got exposed to the idea that the way to keep Shakespeare (or any great author) alive in your memory was constant refreshment. 

We had a professor who read a Shakespeare play a month. Toss in the Homer and the Milton from the class, and her daughter was sure  to have exposure to classic literature. I know that at least one kid grew up in a more enriched environment, thanks to that idea.

I know because I used to ride home from class in the backseat with book and her kid. 

So basically, Khari is unwilling to be a Black Hat, a villain. Hence my Mormon wife was an enemy . . . a millstone around my neck . . . someone who would have kept me in the restaurant business . . . or at least, that was what Khari wants to believe. 

I have started to set the record straight. If only in self-defense, too many omens say that I have family coming back into my life; I don't want to see them nuked simply because Khari is uncomfortable. My sales pitch is simple: If Avalon's prophecy comes true, my empire will be complicated to manage, and I will need someone that I can trust--who better than my blood? I have thought about it for years--stockpiling story ideas. 

But even if I would not have ended up in college, even if I would not have paid good money to have the Riverside Shakespeare in my library, my daughter would have been exposed to the Bard because of my desire to write an OFM consisting of just William Shakespeare lines. The most educated and literary Open Full Moon ever--mine.

Brought to you by an self-educated witch. Because if you can read, you can become an expert in anything, given the right library. My dad taught me that--bad German farmer. 

Yeah, my daughter would have grown up being a proud German farmer, the stock that Benjamin Franklin hated, and thought would never make good Americans.

"Any one of my children could become President, or Pope--it's America!" my dad would say.

In my case, any of my children would see that you could become a low grade publisher. 

"It's my lawful right to own a printing press, along with nuclear weapons, damn it!"

I am not my dad. Which might be why my Mormon wife chose to take my daughter away to be raised by another man. Good call, the world needed one less Shakespeare expert.

It's a device for telling the magical hours of the day: Astrolabe.