Beginnings...

Not every tale has a happy ending. Nor is there always a happily ever after. In fact, sometimes there's not even an ever after at all.

Those paintings of sun-drenched afternoons of purple-hued sunsets and smiling people and watermelon and sunflowers. A myth. A fabrication.

Those magazine covers splashed with celebrity, and a large side of envy. Those destroyers of innocence and promoters of shameless self-indulgence.

phew. ..all that gefilte fish went straight to my head.