Acting Like Dogs

My daughters (Aspen 4 and Norah 9) were at the table, hands at their sides, eating breakfast cereal by shoving their faces into the bowls, pretending to be dogs, when my wife asked Aspen if she’d been drinking the dog’s water.

Aspen looked at me, crumbs on her face, then she looked at her mother, and said, “I don’t know.” “Really,” Mel asked. “Then why w…