Scribblings

I arrive on the East Coast for a wedding and the temps are in the 70s. I realize when I go to Cuba next week it will be even hotter. I maybe should have rethought this whole thing.

A suggestion to all members of my family who are contemplating the idea of marriage sometime before I die and who also think they might want to invite me… think January or February. Lovely months. And I have clothes that work in those temps.

Heading East for a family wedding and then a trip to Cuba. Yep. Cuba. My sister and I are determined to visit all remaining communist countries on earth before their inevitable demise. Because things are really cheap right before the fall.

The first snow of winter is always my cue that it’s time to put the summer flowers away and enjoy the whiteness of the next nine months. For those of us who hate summer, mosquitoes, other bugs and too much sun, we can only say YAY!

The hardest thing about having three dogs is not having three hands and arms to hug and pet them all at once.

Let’s make Hillary president for life and throw those bums in congress back out on the mean streets where they will have to try to actually earn an honest living. They truly are the biggest collection of assholes ever.

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In case you missed it, the Miss America pageant happened last weekend. Miss New York, who looks distinctly mid-Eastern, won. When I was growing up, the composition of that pageant contestants was so homogenous that I knew I could never participate (my last name was Italian, I had brown hair, I was chubby and – most of all – I hated getting dressed up). Now the faces on stage truly do look like a multi colored ethnic rainbow.

So while I am still not sure why we need a Miss America, or how we can choose one girl and say

Bella has a face that says mom and dad are in for quite an adventurous roller coaster ride in the years to come.

Batten down the hatches – Bella is in the house!

And our family thought her mother turned everyone’s hair growing up. I think Bella will set new records.

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