Cleared for reentry

There are so many gray Honda Odyssey minivans in Palo Alto that it can be difficult to locate our car in a big parking lot. I've gotten in the habit of scanning their license numbers to figure out which one is ours.

I've threatened to paint polka-dots on the car, or mount a shark fin on the top.

"You're not touching my car," Gloria always says.

But only now do I know what I really need to do.