Lost: mojo.
Missing since: Beginning of second semester as a college professor.
Description: shimmering, mercurial, brilliant blue, shape-shifting veil of creativity and energy.
Last seen with: Girlish Laughter, Sense of Purpose, Childlike Wonder.
Also answers to: juju, pilas, chutzpah, moxie.
Reward: back handspring, Great American Novel.
If found, please: just send smoke signals or leave it in a basket on the front stoop, or else slip it quietly back into its place and I'll never know you're the one who took it.
