Bespectacled

I’m a good example of the Clark Kent effect. Wearing glasses makes me look meeker, nerdier, smarter, and more mild-mannered than I really am. In fact, I wear glasses because it’s just easier than popping in contact lenses. I cannot do contact lenses. I have some kind of cognitive deficit in which my brain says, Hey, get your finger out of my eye.

Joy was fitted for glasses a month ago. And they just arrived. I think Joy is about the cutest girl on planet Earth. But I think glasses make her look even cuter.

She refuses to wear them for more than two or three minutes. But we are working on it.

“Ice cream,” Joy often says after dinner.

“I’ll get you some if you put on your glasses….”