I Wish I'd Said That

Today I was at a house I'm doing an article about, a house that's both aesthetically pleasing and advanced in the use of green building techniques. They were having a kind of open house for the press, and a close friend who also writes for magazines and such was there too. One thing about the house is that they have giant wooden barn doors on rollers to close off the large windows in the living room, and when we were leaving, the homeowner demonstrated how they work. My friend's twentysomething daughter was home for the holidays and had come along, and she observed that the heavy wooden barriers would be handy if the house were "attacked by zombies." It was three hours ago, and I'm still laughing about it. I think things like that all the time, but I'm very, very slowly learning not to give voice to them when I'm among the grownups.