How is everybody feeling tonight?

Been awhile since I’ve written…a lot can happen in 2+ years: one can graduate from an LLM program, start a new job, sell a house/move into a temporary house, go out without kids for new year’s eve for the first time in 9 years, and then watch pigs fly…I mean witness the Presidential Inauguration of Donald J. Trump.

I truly don’t like to speak to such heavy topics. So instead, I’ll tell you a story about ordering a cake for a birthday party.

Set the scene: Me, standing at the local supermarket bakery counter, flipping through the theme options booklet.

A woman approaches and states, “Can I help you with your cake order?”

“Yes, that would be great. I’m looking for the theme ‘Lion Guard,’ do you have that?”

“How would I know? I don’t make the cakes…I know nothing about the cakes.”

“Oh, so when you asked if you could help me, you were kidding?” Weird sense of humor this one.

She then proceeds to walk behind the counter…to the area where they make the stuff, pics up a photograph that must have been sitting on the counter and says, “You put this here? This is your picture?”

“Uh…no…I don’t go behind the bakery counter uninvited.” But man, now that I know I can…

“Then who put it here?”

Um…