This list of house rules. Bossy taped this piece of paper to the refrigerator in the beginning of the summer to try to manage her family of four in their shoebox diorama dressed as a house. Defining house rules in this way really alleviated what would normally be bickering over the same issues over and…
favorite things
Bossy’s Favorite Things
Subways. Bossy grew up riding many subways a day, and what can she say? She feels comfortable hundreds of feet below ground mixing it up with a bunch of aloof strangers. The first thing Bossy does when she visits a city is to master their public transportation system.
Bossy’s Favorite Things
Scrabble. Or, in this case, travel scrabble on a beach with Bossy’s friend Amy and Bossy’s friend Wally. This is a new phenomenon, because in Bossy’s childhood she would rather have poked her eyes out with needles than played Scrabble with Bossy’s smart mother and her Wordsmith friends. Back then, Bossy’s attempts to place a…


