Birthday Musing

Today is Fiorella's birthday so she's thinking about her mother, who would be thrilled Fio now has a son-in-law, amazed that she has a literary agent, and aghast that she's had a facelift.  Mother assumed Fio would live the life she did, be a good student who grew up to go to college, teach for a few years, marry, then settle down to domesticity and motherhood.  Instead, Fiorella charged ahead every chance she got.  Some of her enterprises  succeeded, a lot went down the drain, but Fio is nothing if not persevering, and now it looks like she's gonna make it as a romance novelist.

But if Mother were still alive, Fio would be writing under a different name.