When Fairies Attack

Newsletter 2022-01-31

What makes a neighborhood dangerous? Is it guns or knives or Razor scooters that destroy every ankle in a three mile radius? Hardly. I’m more afraid of getting turned into a toad. Magic is the ultimate concealed weapon, and it doesn’t even have a three-day waiting period. That’s why I was less than thrilled when my kids invited fairies into our lives. I don’t know much about the tiny winged humanoids, but my kids became obsessed with them last fall during our trip to St. Louis. When we visited our friends, Virginia and Winston, they showed the girls all the fairy gardens on their block. People put them out to cheer up kids during whatever dreary thing was going on in the world at the time. I haven’t turned on the news in two years, so I’m not sure what it was. The kids decided we simply must have a fairy garden of our own. Rest in peace, my professional-looking landscaping. We were going to be the new slumlords of Magic Town.

Contrary to the name, fairy gardens don’t literally grow fai…