This article first appeared in the Devils Lake Journal August 28, 2025.

In a conversation with my favorite three-year-old, I said, “I will come pick you up at five o’clock.”

She promptly reversed the camera on the phone she was holding so that I could see the digital clock in her mom’s car.

“Look Grandma,” she said, “it IS five o’clock!”

It was 1:30, but I didn’t argue. Everything is present tense to a toddler. 

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