Skin

In olden times, ladies covered up when the sun was out--broad-brimmed hats, high necks, long sleeves, even gloves. All of which were discarded in the golden days of tanning, skin cancer, and premature aging.

What goes around comes around. Fio now pulls on gloves when she drives, especially on the left hand, which has already developed two and a half brown spots. And she wears longer sleeves and buttons her blouses to the top.

Oh, for a poke bonnet.

Out, Out, Damned Spot!

Freckle-free Fio
Hard to say and weird to be
Nevertheless
With chemicals peeling her skin, that's she

Award on Time

Fiorella was down yesterday. She'd been working on the rewrite of a chapter all day and still wasn't satisfied. How depressing. Here she was, trying so hard to get published, and she couldn't even straighten a chapter out. Finally she tossed the whole thing and walked up the driveway to pick up the mail.

It was the usual stuff--a few catalogs, a medical bill, some stupid advertisements, and . . . an envelope from the Linda Howard Award of Excellence. When Fio opened it back at the house, she found a silver book mark engraved with her name and the name of the contest which she had won two months earlier.

She'd known the award was going to come, but how wonderful that it arrived exactly when she needed it.

Conflicted

Fiorella cannot say she is glad that Osama bin Laden is dead. In fact, she can't bring herself to be happy about the death of anyone. She would have preferred that Osama had repented his evil ways and lived a better life.

But he didn't.

News Clips

After The Donald's performance at the White House correspondents' annual dinner, word is that Sesame Street is negotiating to replace Oscar the Grouch with Trump the Grump.
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Interesting that certain Islamic clerics are objecting to bin Laden's burial at sea as being contrary to Islamic tradition, but didn't have an ounce of objection when he was alive and killing innocent people by the barrelful.
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Love the coverage of Kate Middleton as being "raised from the gutter" by William. Some gutter--her parents are millionaires.

The Chump Twins

Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee--
I think that I have never seen
A funnier combo on TV
Than Donald Trump and Charlie Sheen

One has hair and one has flair
And each one is a millionaire--
Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum,
The reigning kings of tedium,
With vacuum in the cranium.

Back to the Womb

Fiorella's a water baby. When she can't sleep on the couch or the bed, she takes to the tub, where she's been putting in some quality post-surgery zzzs.

Not bad for someone who took three years to learn how to float.