Juss, who, at 10, does not yet grog the allure of girls: "Everything is okay in this game except…" voice lowered, "There is this tree girl and, for some reason, I don't know why, you can see her breast and bottom. Then later, she's wearing even less." Said with more baffled confusion than can be…

Juss, dancing around the kitchen, "The donut dance! The donut dance! My dance of super powered donuts!" Then he pauses and says sheepishly. "All right. It's not super powered. It's just an ordinary donut dance."  

Daddy, on the subject of whether or not the boys had to eat all of the dinner. "Yes. Because we are training you to be a guru. Gurus are people who can walk on hot coals, sleep on beds of nails, and eat unidentified vegetables."   Also: John: "I am starting a new roleplaying game,…

The boys were doing something odd with the Master Mind game.   Mom: "What are you doing?" Juss: "Nothing. Just watching an evil demon lose against Orville." Orville: "No actually, it's an evil master mind from outer space." Juss: "You think that if he were a master mind, he would be good at Master Mind."…

Juss comes home from school and says:     Two guys are sneaking along in a basement:   First guy: "Why am I hearing spy music?"   Second guy: "The fourth wall is still broken."    

Mom: "Orville, can you carry out the boxes in the hallway and put them with the recycling stuff outside for the trash?" Orville: "Okay….I can't get the door open." Mom: "Just a second." Orville: "One Chimpansee." (the lenght of a second. My great uncle counted them in chimpansees. So do we. That's four generations of…

Juss and John talking in Character. Juss is moderating. In this scene, he is running Bob the Plesiosaur, the friend of John's character, Abednego Blaze. Bob is always very polite to his master, but his master tends to babble on and on and on… Bob, in his gentle voice: "Please be quite, Sir." Abednego: "I'm…

Juss, after hearing that I failed in my quest to become a lucid dreamer because whenever weird things happened in my dreams, I thought it was a roleplaying game. "No offense, Mom, but you're weird."   Considering the rest of my life, one cannot help wondering what his basis of comparison is.

My eldest son: "Okay, we're going to do this 'outside the box.' And then we are going to put it back in the box, just to confuse them." Can't tell you how amazed I was that this particular young man had even the vaguest idea where 'the box' was.

A special post of the Overheard at the Wright Household variety about Life with Boys:   Me, upon returning from a wonderful trip to Georgia: "Ping-Ping's brother's family was really great. I wish you could have come with us. I think you would have had a wonderful time." To which Juss, the eternal boy, asked…