My cousin came over for lunch. We had chicken adobo, spinach and garlic, steamed rice, and grocery-store apple pie. During lunch she confessed to us that she wants to see Monster's Inc. on Ice. She convinced my sister that she made the pie from scratch, and that she used soy sauce.

Later she stood on her chair for no apparent reason.

Later still, my sister said very thoughtfully that she could not taste the soy sauce.

I wonder where my checkbook is . . . --jpv