Happy Boo-Day!

The other day my nine-year-old put on his Luke Skywalker costume and together we went to “Boo At The Zoo.” Basically it’s an event in which the LA zoo puts their animal’s food inside pumpkins and forces them to dig it out. The animals don’t seem to object too much (they frequently just smash the pumpkin to bits and get on with the eating) and it is oddly entertaining. But on that particular day there were other rare sights at the zoo as well. For instance while checking out the fossa (a Madagascan civet) my son took the opportunity to explain to a group of men exactly what subspecies the fossa belongs to, how it evolved and the geological and evolutionary history of Madagascar. The men were incredibly impressed. We ran into them a few more times as we checked out the other animals. Each time the men peppered my son with questions and expressed their feelings of “intellectual intimidation.” It wasn’t until we ran into them again at the Colobus Monkey exhibit that I bothered to take a good look at these guys and realized that one of them was Ron Howard.

After we had all gone our separate ways I told my little-Jr.-Zoologist who Ron Howard was and listed the movies that he had made: Curious George, The Da Vinci Code, Apollo 13, How The Grinch Stole Christmas and so on. “So,” I explained, “you made a big impression on a pretty famous and accomplished guy.”

My son took this in, nodded and said, “That’s really cool mom, but you know, it’s not like he’s Spielberg.”

Some people are so very hard to impress.

Anyhoo, I hope you all have a fabulous Halloween that is filled with impressive and surprising moments. And if you happen to see Spielberg amongst the trick-or-treaters tell him my son says hi.


Kyra Davis
Bestselling Author of:
SEX, MURDER AND A DOUBLE LATTE,
PASSION, BETRAYAL AND KILLER HIGHLIGHTS,
OBSESSION, DECEIT AND REALLY DARK CHOCOLATE
and
SO MUCH FOR MY HAPPY ENDING