My friend Connie whom I've known for 12 years was upset at me for forgetting her middle name which begins with "K". I guessed “Karen, Kate, Kathy, Kelly, Kristine, Kristol.” “No, it's none of these, and I'm not going to tell you!” Later I read an article in the San Jose Mercury News (March 31, 2002) about a son auctioning off his mother for a day on eBay. Recently Connie's son emailed me a photo of her two-month old granddaughter smiling. These events merged in my dream of Rumpelstiltskin challenging me to guess Connie's middle name.

	Dream of Rumpelstiltskin dancing in the woods ready to take a baby away.
I saw Rumpelstiltskin in the woods at play dancing merrily and he had this to say: Today I bake, tomorrow I take away baby Parker to auction off on eBay unless you guess Connie's middle name or you have only yourself to blame! Soon I'll be gone in my merry way spinning reams of gold from bales of hay. Every nook and cranny in his memory lanes Peter searched her name and almost went insane. Then suddenly out of the sky came a bluejay who whispered in his ear “It's Connie Kay!” Parker is not under Rumpelstiltskin's spell but back in Grandma's arms and all is well.

© Peter Y. Chou, WisdomPortal.com P.O. Box 390707, Mountain View, CA 94039 email: peter@wisdomportal.com (4-2-2002)