From Religion to a Snake to Music to Carpal Tunnel to the Big Wide World

 When it came to learning about religion, Fiorella was lucky: the girl next door was Catholic, the girl across the street was Jewish, and up and down the majority of the rest of the street, Baptists and Methodists abounded, all of which prepared your girl for friends of even of more diverse religions when she went to college.😋

Son L spotted a coral snake slithering through our yard up close to the back door this morning. In case you don't know, they're strikingly beautiful and just as venomous, but not aggressive, as proved by the speed at which our visitor disappeared into the underbrush. WOW!

Hmm....no one's in the house but Fiorella and the cats so maybe your girl can dare to try to sing again after losing her soprano in 2002 to a partial thyroidectomy. After all, partial means there must be something left, right? 

If you're wondering how long it takes to get through a carpal tunnel attack even after you've had the surgery like your girl has, it's  f-o-r-e-v-e-r, and now Fio is hearing stories about people who never completely recover😕

What's going to happen regarding the Ukraine? Are we and the rest of the world going to tolerate Putin's rape of a neighboring country? Which one is next? Little Latvia? Belarus? Estonia? Finland, which could launch him onto Norway and Sweden?  Then, in the other direction, is Alaska, which Putin may want to relieve us of and hook up to Russian again.