After answering Vivienne’s frightened 2 a.m. “Moooommmmy!”, reassuring her that monsters are not real and they are not in our house, tucking her in with a companion teddy bear, and praying for her, I returned to bed.

This morning when I asked what happened with the monsters, Vivienne casually said, “Oh, they went away. I scared ’em away when I acted like a monster, too. Like this: GRRRR!”