The End Of A Dream

Well, the shrink ray ended in tears. Left unattended for a few minutes, Riley, impatient with progress burnt his finger on the soldering iron, screamed hysterically and now seems to have crashed for the night.

I know that today's failure will just be a small hiccup in Riley's inventing career. Two weeks ago he was determined to master flight and he mentioned today that he hadn't given up on that dream as he was flapping arms whilst wearing one of my cardigans.

As Charles F. Kettering said, "I believe and act as if it were impossible to fail ", so does Riley.